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Ying Qu
Cao Wei writer, younger brother of Ying Yang, who served as palace attendant and wrote the satirical Baiyi poems.
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 Zi Xiulian
Ying Qu, courtesy name Xiulian, was a native of Runan (southeast of modern Runan, Henan), born in 190. He served at the end of the Han and then Cao Wei, rising to cavalier attendant-in-ordinary; under Cao Fang he was palace attendant and chief clerk to the general-in-chief, and he used verse to rebuke the regent Cao Shuang's grip on power. He died in 252 and was posthumously made Commandant of the Guards. His Baiyi poems criticized the government of his day, and his poems and letters survive in the Wen Xuan and the Gushi Yuan.
Life and times
Dates 190 CE–252 CE