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Cen Xun
High Tang scholar from Nanyang who composed the Duobao Pagoda Stele text and is the "Master Cen" hailed in Li Bai's Bring in the Wine.
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 Master Cen · Cen Xun of Nanyang
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Cen Xun, a scholar from Nanyang in the High Tang, is known mainly through two texts. He composed the inscription of the Duobao Pagoda Stele, erected in 752 at Qianfu Temple in Chang'an and written out by Yan Zhenqing; the stele is signed "composed by Cen Xun of Nanyang". He was also a drinking companion of Li Bai and Yuan Danqiu, and Li Bai addressed a poem to him. The "Master Cen" toasted in Li Bai's Bring in the Wine is generally identified as Cen Xun.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; composed the Duobao Pagoda Stele text in 752 CE