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Yuan Quhua
Southern Song lyric poet from Fengxin in Jiangxi, a jinshi of 1145 who served as magistrate of Shanhua and Shishou.
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 Xuanqing
Yuan Quhua, courtesy name Xuanqing, was a lyric poet of the Southern Song from Fengxin, Jiangxi. He passed the jinshi in 1145 and served as magistrate of Shanhua and then of Shishou, where by one account he died in office. Zhang Xiaoxiang praised his lyrics. His surviving collection is commonly called Yuan Xuanqing Ci, and the Songci Sanbaishou selects three of his pieces, including 'Ruihexian'. His dates are not recorded.
Life and times
- UnknownBorn
Songpassed the jinshi in 1145 - UnknownDied
Works
Literature · Lyrics3- Auspicious Crane Immortal · Rain Just Past over the FieldsSongYuan Quhua's long ci of a weary traveller retracing an old road and missing the one left behind
- Sword Dance Song · Rain in the NightSongYuan Quhua's long ci of a lonely spring day after rain, sending tears downriver to a friend
- Young Lord An · Willows of a Thousand ThreadsSongYuan Quhua's long ci of early spring wind and rain, a distant love and a long, weary day