Mid-Tang poet styled Yunyan, one of the Ten Talents of the Dali era, best known for his frontier poems such as 'Songs of the Frontier'.
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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.
Lu Lun, courtesy name Yunyan, was a mid-Tang poet counted among the Ten Talents of the Dali era. Recommended by Yuan Zai and Wang Jin, he became a collator in 771 and later a censor and county magistrate. In his last years he served on the staff of the military governor Hun Jian. His frontier poems, especially 'Songs of the Frontier', are his best-known work; he died in 800.
Lu Lun, made defender of Wenxiang, rises to acting Board of Revenue director
Mid-Tang, from the Dali years
Lu Lun, courtesy name Yunyan, of Pu in Hezhong, failed the jinshi examination several times in the early Dali years. Yuan Zai took his writings and presented them to the throne, and he was made defender of Wenxiang, then promoted to censor, though he often left on grounds of illness. When Hun Jian garrisoned Hezhong he took him as judge on the marshal's staff, and he rose to acting director in the Board of Revenue.
Lu Lun, one of ten of equal name known as the Ten Talents of Dali
Mid-Tang, Dali years
Lu Lun, together with Ji Zhongfu, Han Hong, Qian Qi, Sikong Shu, Miao Fa, Cui Dong, Geng Wei, Xiahou Shen and Li Duan, was able in verse and equal in name; they were called the Ten Talents of the Dali years. His poems survive in a collection of ten juan.
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