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Yu Dan
Liang-dynasty poet, son of Yu Jingxiu and friend of Fu Ting and He Zilang, who served as a Jiankang official and record keeper before being exiled to Guangzhou.
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.
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Yu Dan, an official and poet of the Liang, was the son of Yu Jingxiu and a friend of Fu Ting and He Zilang. He served as a Jiankang magistrate and then as record keeper to Xiao Yuanlang, but was punished for an offence and exiled to Guangzhou. Two of his poems are preserved in the Yutai Xinyong; his dates and courtesy name are not recorded.
Life and times
- UnknownBorn
Northern and Southernactive in the Liang dynasty - UnknownDied
Works
Literature · Poetry2- Gazing Out from an Autumn ChamberNorthern and SouthernYu Dan on a woman alone on an autumn night under the Milky Way, waiting for one who never comes
- Dreaming at Night of Going HomeNorthern and SouthernYu Dan dreams of drawing well water at home with the one he misses, then wakes to the spring