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Ye Xie (Xingyi)
Foremost poetic theorist of the Qing Dynasty (1627–1703 CE), authored 'On the Origin of Poetry' (Yuan Shi), constructing an epistemological system of Chinese poetic aesthetics.
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 Ye Xingqi · Master Yiqi
Ye Xie (1627–1703 CE), style name Xingqi, was the supreme poetic theorist of the Qing era. His theoretical masterpiece 'On the Origin of Poetry' (Yuan Shi) formulated the definitive four-part aesthetic doctrine of Talent, Courage, Insight, and Power (Cai, Dan, Shi, Li), representing the apex of systematic classical Chinese poetic philosophy.
Life and times
Dates 1627–1703 CE