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Fan Gongcheng
Southern Song miscellany writer and descendant of Fan Zhongyan whose Guoting Lu is the source of the idiom 'falling behind Sun Shan'.
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 Great-great-grandson of Fan Zhongyan
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Fan Gongcheng, a great-great-grandson of the Northern Song statesman Fan Zhongyan, lived in the Southern Song and was active in the Shaoxing era of Emperor Gaozong; little is known of his career. According to the Siku quanshu catalogue, he wrote down what he had heard from his elders as the one-chapter notebook Guoting lu, which records anecdotes of Northern Song statesmen and scholars. The story of Sun Shan behind the idiom about falling behind Sun Shan appears in it.
Life and times
- UnknownBorn
Songactive in the Shaoxing era of Southern Song (1131–1162 CE) - UnknownDied
Works
Literature · Fables1- Falling Behind Sun ShanSongAnecdote in the Guoting Lu: Sun Shan, last on the list, tactfully reports a neighbour's failure
- Literature · Sayings1
- Name Falls Below Sun ShanSongIdiom from Guoting Lu: a polite way to say one failed the exam
Family tree
- Direct kin
Fan GongchengGreat-great-grandfather
