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Huang Daozhou
Late Ming scholar, calligrapher and Southern Ming grand secretary who raised troops against the Qing and was executed after his capture
At dawn in a palace courtyard, a large drum hangs in a small roofed frame beside a red pillar, with a bound bundle of scrolls on a low stand in front; a stone balustrade leads toward a large hall in the mist, and a row of tiny people stands far away.
Also known as Zi Youxuan · Hao Shizhai
Huang Daozhou, courtesy name Youxuan and sobriquet Shizhai, came from Zhangpu in Fujian and passed the jinshi examination in 1622. He served as a Hanlin compiler and vice supervisor of the household of the heir apparent, and his outspoken memorials under the Chongzhen emperor earned him a flogging at court and prison. Under the Longwu court of the Southern Ming he became a grand secretary, raised troops to fight the Qing, was defeated and captured at Wuyuan, and was executed in Nanjing in 1646. A scholar of the Book of Changes, he wrote standard, running and cursive script, and his epitaph for Zhang Pu survives.
Life and times
Dates 1585–1646