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Hu Sou
Writer from Linjing in Anding styled Lunxu, who moved between several courts before joining the Northern Wei and lived to eighty.
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 Lunxu
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Hu Sou, courtesy name Lunxu, came from Linjing in Anding, of an old western family, and was a writer of the Sixteen Kingdoms and early Northern Wei. As the Yao Qin declined he went to Chang'an, then to Hanzhong, where he served the Song general Ji Han and followed him to Shu, and later went to Juqu Mujian of the Northern Liang without being valued. Before Mujian surrendered he came over to the Northern Wei and was made Tiger Might General. In a poem to Cheng Boda he said he had long chosen Great Wei as his tree. He died at eighty, in a year not recorded.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; lived to 80; came over to the Northern Wei around the fall of Northern Liang in 439