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Yuan Danqiu
High Tang Daoist recluse of Mount Song and close friend of Li Bai, the "Danqiu Sheng" of Bring in the Wine.
In a temple courtyard at dusk, a great bronze bell hangs at the right and incense smoke rises from a bronze urn; monks in orange robes and plainly dressed visitors walk toward a lamplit hall, lotus flowers bloom in a stone basin, and a gold prayer wheel stands at the left.
Also known as Danqiu Sheng · Danqiuzi
- Roles
- Religious Figure
Yuan Danqiu was a Daoist adept of the High Tang whose dates are unknown. He lived for years as a recluse around Mount Song and Yingyang, and he was one of Li Bai's closest friends. Li Bai wrote several poems for him, among them the Song of Yuan Danqiu, poems on his mountain dwellings, and a farewell song sending him to Mount Hua, all portraying him as a seeker of immortality. He is the "Danqiu Sheng" toasted alongside Cen Xun in Bring in the Wine.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active in the Kaiyuan and Tianbao eras of Emperor Xuanzong