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Fan Bo (Earl of Fan)
High minister of the late Western Zhou (c. 810 BCE–760 BCE), authored 'Da Dong' in the Shijing criticizing unequal taxation and social disparity.
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 Earl of Fan · Minister Fan Bo
Fan Bo (c. 810 BCE–760 BCE) was a high minister of the late Western Zhou and descendant of the Duke of Zhou. Lamenting corrupt governance under King You, he composed 'Da Dong' (The Great East), brilliantly deploying celestial metaphors to denounce social injustice and economic extortion.
Life and times
Dates c. 810 BCE–760 BCE