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Duan Chengshi
Tang Dynasty Essayist, Novelist, and Author of Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang
Mural guide
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 Duan Kegu · Kegu · Youyang Zazu Zuozhe
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Tang Dynasty author whose landmark encyclopedia of the bizarre, 'Youyang Zazu', preserved folklore, foreign legends, natural history, and classical tales.
Life and times
Dates 803 - 863
EraTang