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Zeng Yunyuan
Ci poet of the Song-Yuan transition, styled Oujiang, from Taihe; four of his lyrics, including a Shuilongyin, are in the Yuan Caotang Shiyu, from which the Complete Song Lyrics takes them.
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 Oujiang · Shunqing (by one account)
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Zeng Yunyuan, styled Oujiang, from Taihe in Jiangxi, was a ci poet of the Song-Yuan transition about whose life little is known. The Cizong gives his courtesy name as Shunqing, but a Baidu entry suspects it was confused with that of Zeng Kui. His Shuilongyin is well known, and the Yuan Caotang Shiyu includes four of his lyrics, which the Complete Song Lyrics takes from it. A Diangangchun beginning with the east wind overnight is attributed to him, a delicate boudoir lyric.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; lived around the Song-Yuan transition