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Shen Manyuan
Liang-dynasty woman poet from Wukang in Wuxing, granddaughter of Shen Yue and wife of Fan Jing.
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 Wife of Fan Jing · Lady Shen, wife of Fan Jing
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Shen Manyuan, a Liang-dynasty woman poet, came from Wukang in Wuxing (modern Deqing, Huzhou) and was a granddaughter of Shen Yue. She married Fan Jing and is therefore often listed in the Yutai Xinyong as the wife of Fan Jing. Her poems dwell on objects and feelings of the women's quarters, among them poems on the swaying hairpin flower, the five-colour bamboo brazier and the lamp. The anthology preserves nine of her poems; her three-fascicle collection is lost.
Life and times
- UnknownBorn
Northern and Southern
SuiLiang-dynasty poet active in the 6th century - UnknownDied
Works
Literature · Poetry4- On a Swaying Hairpin FlowerNorthern and SouthernShen Manyuan on a swaying hairpin so finely made that its flowers seem to grow
- Teasing Lady XiaoNorthern and SouthernShen Manyuan's playful poem on a lady glimpsed through her curtains, adorned at dawn
- On a Five-Coloured Bamboo Warming CageNorthern and SouthernShen Manyuan on a bamboo warming cage admired for its trim, its cloud-high past forgotten
- On a Lamp · The Silk Feast at DuskNorthern and SouthernShen Manyuan on a lamp at a night feast, untroubled by moths and afraid only of the dawn
Family tree
- Direct kin
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