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Qu You (Zongji)
Early Ming Dynasty writer (1341–1427 CE), authored the renowned supernatural romance collection 'New Tales Told by the Trimmed Lamp' (Jiandeng Xinhua).
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 Qu Zongji · Cunzhai
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Qu You (1341–1427 CE), style name Zongji, was an early Ming literary innovator. His masterpiece anthology 'New Tales Told by the Trimmed Lamp' (Jiandeng Xinhua) revitalized classical Chinese fiction, exerting a profound cross-cultural influence across East Asia, directly inspiring seminal Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese literary traditions.
Life and times
Dates 1341–1427 CE