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Yang Fang
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.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; an Eastern Jin man of Kuaiji