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Zhu Yizun
Founder of the Zhexi school of ci from Jiaxing, who helped compile the History of Ming and the Cizong
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 Zhu Xichang · Xichang · Zhucha · Master Zhucha · Zhexi Cipai Kaishanzu
Zhu Yizun, courtesy name Xichang and sobriquet Zhucha, from Xiushui, now Jiaxing, in Zhejiang, was born in 1629, a Qing scholar and ci poet who founded the Zhexi school of ci and was expert in epigraphy. Chosen in the special examination of 1679, he became a Hanlin corrector and helped compile the History of Ming. In ci he upheld Jiang Kui and Zhang Yan and compiled the anthology Cizong; he also compiled the Ming shizong and wrote the Jingyi kao and the Pushuting ji in eighty volumes. He died in 1709.
Life and times
Ming
QingWorks
Literature · Lyrics4- Green Willow Tips · Recording an Outing: A Silk Fan to Hide Her BlushQingZhu Yizun's short ci of a return visit, borrowing Cui Hu's tale of a face seen once in spring
- Untying the Pendant · Inscribed on My Own Ci Collection: Ten Years Honing a SwordQingZhu Yizun's mid-length ci on his own ci collection, naming his models and summing up his life
- Hidden Fragrance · On Red Love-Beans: Like Congealed PearlsQingZhu Yizun's long ci on red love-beans, picked by southern girls and counted by a lonely woman
- Celebrating the Spring Marsh · Recording Regret: Bridge Shadows a Flowing RainbowQingZhu Yizun's long ci of coming back too late, the beloved gone and only the peach blossom left