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Shu Menglan
Qing lyricist, courtesy name Baixiang, compiler of the Baixiang Cipu, which picks one hundred lyrics from Tang to Qing, one per tune with tonal marks, and has long served as a primer for beginners.
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 Courtesy name Baixiang
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Shu Menglan (1759–1835), courtesy name Baixiang, was a Qing lyricist from Jing'an in Jiangxi. His Baixiang Cipu gathers one hundred lyrics by fifty-nine poets from Li Bai of the Tang to Huang Zhijun of the Qing, each representing a different tune with the tonal pattern marked for every character, and takes its title from his courtesy name. Simple in design and convenient for beginners, it has been a standard primer for learning to compose ci since the Qing.
Life and times
Dates 1759–1835 CE