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Zhuang Nanjie
Tang poet from the Yue region, contemporary of Jia Dao, whose collection is lost but five poems survive in the Quan Tang Shi.
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 Zhuang Nanjie (traditional form)
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- Writer / Poet
Zhuang Nanjie, also written with the traditional character for Jie, was a Tang poet from the Yue region of modern Zhejiang and a contemporary of Jia Dao; his dates are unknown. A one-volume collection is lost, while the Quan Tang Shi preserves five of his poems, including the yuefu-style 'Shang Ge Xing'.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; a mid-Tang contemporary of Jia Dao