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Yuan Hong
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.
Life and times
Dates 328 CE-376 CE