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Peng Yuanxun
Ci poet of the Song-Yuan transition, courtesy name Xunwu, from Luling; he exchanged poems with Liu Chenweng, refused office after the fall of the Song and left twenty lyrics.
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 Xunwu
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- Writer / Poet
Peng Yuanxun, courtesy name Xunwu, from Luling (modern Ji'an in Jiangxi), was a ci poet at the turn of the Song and Yuan. He sat the prefectural examination in 1261, exchanged poems with his fellow townsman Liu Chenweng, and declined office after the Southern Song fell. Twenty of his lyrics survive; Liuchou: Willow Catkins, which expresses personal sorrow through the drifting catkins, is included in the Three Hundred Song Lyrics.
Life and times
- UnknownBorn
Songsat the prefectural exam in 1261 - UnknownDied
Works
Literature · Lyrics2- Sparse Shadows · The River Empty, No One CrossingSongPeng Yuanxun's long ci on seeking plum blossom in vain, steeped in the imagery of the Chu songs
- Six Uglies · Like the East Wind Grown OldSongPeng Yuanxun's long ci on drifting willow floss, a rootless life among places fallen to ruin