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Shi Hui
Yuan shopkeeper of Hangzhou, traditionally named as the author of the southern drama The Moon-Worship Pavilion, also known as The Secluded Boudoir.
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 Zi Junmei · Zi Juncheng
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Shi Hui, courtesy name Junmei (also given as Juncheng), was a native of Hangzhou. Zhong Sicheng's Register of Ghosts lists him among its author's contemporaries and says he kept a shop in front of the City God temple on Wu Hill. The southern drama The Moon-Worship Pavilion, which follows Jiang Shilong and Wang Ruilan as they are parted and reunited amid war, was reworked in the Ming as The Secluded Boudoir and is traditionally credited to him. The attribution comes from Ming writers such as He Liangjun and Wang Shizhen; the Register of Ghosts does not credit him with the play, and Lü Tiancheng's Qupin already remarked that the claim had no firm basis, so the authorship remains unsettled.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; late Yuan, listed as a contemporary in Zhong Sicheng's Register of Ghosts (preface 1330)