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Pioneering Tang Dynasty fiction writer and court historian (c. 750–800 CE), created 'The World Inside a Pillow' and the immortal motif of the Golden Millet Dream.
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 Shen Shiyi
Shen Jiji (c. 750–800 CE) was a foundational writer of Tang Dynasty chuanqi fiction and court historian. His masterpiece 'The World Inside a Pillow' (Zhen Zhong Ji) crafted the philosophical fable of the 'Golden Millet Dream', while 'The Story of Miss Ren' (Ren Shi Zhuan) pioneered compassionate supernatural romance in Chinese literature.
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Literature · Fiction2Literature · Sayings1In the second year of Jianzhong (781), Shen Jiji went from his post as Reminder of the Left to Jin-Wu. The gentlemen there, amazed at the story of Lady Ren, asked him to write it down as a record of the strange. He composed the Tale of Lady Ren, which closes with his name.
After Yang Yan, a vice minister of personnel, came to power he recommended Shen Jiji as a man of real talent for history. Shen was summoned as Reminder of the Left and compiler at the History Office, wrote the Jianzhong Veritable Record, which his contemporaries praised, and later rose to Vice Director in the Ministry of Rites.