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Han Yu
Southern Song ci poet, courtesy name Zigeng, whose New Year's Eve lyric to the tune Gaoyangtai, praised in Huifeng Cihua for its plain words and deep feeling, is in the Three Hundred Song 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 Zigeng
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Han Yu, courtesy name Zigeng, was a Southern Song ci poet whose dates and career are unknown. Little of his work survives, but his Gaoyangtai: New Year's Eve is well known; Kuang Zhouyi's Huifeng Cihua praises its plain words and deep feeling, and it is included in the Three Hundred Song Lyrics as a notable New Year's Eve lyric.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; a Southern Song poet