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Eastern Jin writer and historian styled Yanbo from Yangxia, author of the Houhan Ji and the Eulogies for Famous Ministers of the Three Kingdoms.
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 Yanbo
Yuan Hong, courtesy name Yanbo, came from Yangxia in Chen commandery and was an Eastern Jin writer and historian. He served as military adviser to Xie An, then as secretary to Huan Wen, and governed Nanhai in 363 and Dongyang. He wrote the 30-juan Houhan Ji as a sequel to Xun Yue's Han Ji, the three-juan Zhulin Mingshi Zhuan, the Dongzheng and Beizheng rhapsodies, and the Sanguo Mingchen Xu Zan, which is in the Wen Xuan. He died in 376.
JinOrphaned and poor, Yuan Hong first made his living transporting grain, then rose to secretary in the office of Huan Wen. Xie Shang, as General Who Pacifies the West and Inspector of Yuzhou, drew him into military affairs. From Personnel Secretary he was sent out to Dongyang Commandery and died there in the early Taiyuan years, aged forty-nine.
Yuan Hong followed Huan Wen on the northern campaign and wrote the Northern Campaign Rhapsody; he also wrote the Eastern Campaign Rhapsody, the Later Han Chronicle in thirty fascicles and the Bamboo Grove Famous Scholars in three. His poems, rhapsodies, eulogies and memorials, some three hundred pieces, were handed down. He also wrote nine hymns praising Emperor Jianwen and presented them to Emperor Xiaowu.