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Eastern Jin poet styled Gonghui from Kuaiji, who rose to governor of Gaoliang, whose 'Poems of Union' appear in the Yutai Xinyong.
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 Gonghui
Yang Fang, courtesy name Gonghui, came from Kuaiji and was an Eastern Jin poet. He served as commandery clerk and registrar, then as governor of Dong'an, military adviser to the Minister of the Masses, and finally governor of Gaoliang. His Wu Jing Gou Chen and his abridgement of the Wu Yue Chunqiu are lost. His 'Poems of Union' survive in the Yutai Xinyong. His dates are unknown.
Jin
Northern and Southernan Eastern Jin man of Kuaiji
Literature · Poetry1Wang Dao, Minister of Education, summoned Yang Fang as a clerk; he was transferred to governor of Dong'an and then promoted to military adviser. Feeling his origins were humble, he asked for a distant commandery where he could live quietly and write; Wang Dao agreed and recommended him as governor of Gaoliang, where he stayed for years.
During his years in Gaoliang, Yang Fang wrote Five Classics Sunk Depths and compiled a Wu-Yue Annals, together with miscellaneous prose; all circulated widely. Earlier, He Xun read his writing, said it had an unusual quality, and spoke of him in the capital.