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Liu Huan
Liang-dynasty official and poet, son of Liu Zhao, who served as chief record-keeping adjutant to Xiao Yi, Prince of Xiangdong.
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 Handu
Liu Huan, courtesy name Handu, had ancestral roots in Gaotang, Pinyuan, and was an official of the Liang dynasty; his father Liu Zhao also served the Liang. As chief record-keeping adjutant to Xiao Yi, Prince of Xiangdong, he was ranked first among the literati gathered at the western office, and he died in post after following the prince to Jiangzhou, around 540 (uncertain). The Yutai Xinyong preserves poems by him, including three matching the prince's miscellaneous verses.
Life and times
Dates Birth unknown; died c. 540 CE; active under the Liang