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Lu Lun
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'.
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 Yunyan
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.
Life and times
Dates 743 CE-800 CE