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Yan Yanzhi
Liu Song writer and official, paired with Xie Lingyun as Yan and Xie
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Yan Yannian · Yan Guanglu · Yannian · Yan Xie Zhi Yan
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Yan Yanzhi, courtesy name Yannian, from Linyi in Langya, was born in 384, a writer and official of the Eastern Jin and Liu Song who rose to Grand Master of the Palace with Golden Seal and Purple Ribbon. He is paired with Xie Lingyun as Yan and Xie, and is counted with Xie and Bao Zhao among the three great Yuanjia poets. His surviving works include the Elegy for Tao the Recluse, the Rhapsody on the Red and White Horse and the Five Gentlemen poems. He died in 456 and received posthumous honours. See the Book of Song, chapter 73.
Life and times
Dates 384 - 456