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Zhu Xiaochun
Qianlong-era Han Banner official, poet and painter who, as prefect of Tai'an, climbed Mount Tai through the snow with Yao Nai to watch the sunrise.
In the courtyard of a district government hall, a line of petitioners waits before a raised bench with a long table and document boxes; a blue umbrella stands beside it, a large drum stands at the gate where a few people wait, and a lake with sailboats lies beyond.
Also known as Zi Ziying · Hao Haiyu · Hao Sitang
Zhu Xiaochun, courtesy name Ziying, art names Haiyu and Sitang, belonged to the Han Chinese Plain Red Banner. He served in Sichuan as magistrate of Jianzhou and prefect of Chongqing, then as prefect of Tai'an in Shandong, and was later promoted to Lianghuai salt commissioner, restoring the Plum Blossom Academy in Yangzhou. A gifted poet and painter who studied with Yao Nai under Liu Dakui, he left the Haiyu Poetry Collection and directed the compilation of the Mount Tai Gazetteer. In the winter of 1774 Yao Nai, returning south from the capital, climbed Mount Tai with him to watch the sunrise; he is the 'Prefect Zhu Xiaochun, Ziying' of 'Record of Ascending Mount Tai'.
Life and times
Dates Dates disputed (1729–1784 or 1735–1801); prefect of Tai'an in 1774