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Liu Xiaowei
Southern Liang poet of the Liu clan of Pengcheng, son of Liu Hui and brother of Liu Xiaochuo, a Gaozhai scholar of Xiao Gang.
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 Gaozhai Scholar
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Liu Xiaowei was a Southern Liang poet of the Liu family of Pengcheng, son of Liu Hui, brother of Liu Xiaochuo and of the poet Liu Lingxian. He served as legal officer and registrar, then as Attendant Secretary in the Crown Prince's household with concurrent usher duties, and was one of Xiao Gang's Gaozhai scholars. He died at Anlu in his early fifties. His ten-volume collections are lost, but ten of his poems are preserved in the Yutai Xinyong.
Life and times
Dates 496 CE-549 CE