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Su Hui (Su Ruolan)
Celebrated poetess of Former Qin (c. 357–410 CE), creator of the 840-character palindromic brocade poem 'Xuanji Tu', capable of yielding thousands of verses.
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 Su Ruolan · Ruolan
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Su Hui (c. 357–410 CE), style name Ruolan, was an extraordinary poetess of the Former Qin dynasty. She wove the legendary 840-character palindromic grid 'Xuanji Tu' in five-colored silk brocade for her husband Dou Tao. Reading forward, backward, horizontally, or vertically yields thousands of poignant classical poems.
Life and times
Dates c. 357–410 CE