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Liu Yun
Liang-dynasty poet and official, courtesy name Wenchang, admired for his clear, elegant verse such as the Jiangnan Qu, and skilled in music and the zither.
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 Wenchang
Liu Yun, courtesy name Wenchang, was born under the Liu Song and served the Qi and Liang. His posts included Crown Prince's Attendant, Chancellor of the Prince of Poyang, Governor of Guangzhou, Director of the Palace Library and Governor of Wuxing. Some twenty of his poems survive, mostly in the Yutai Xinyong and Wenyuan Yinghua, among them the Jiangnan Qu and a fulling-song poem. He was also skilled in music and the zither; most of his other writings are lost.
Life and times
Dates 465–517 CE