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Yu Xi
Poet of the Southern Qi and Liang from Yuyao in Kuaiji, whose poem on General Huo's northern campaign is included in the Wen Xuan.
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 Shiguang · Zi Ziyang
Yu Xi, courtesy name Shiguang (also Ziyang), came from Yuyao in Kuaiji. A student at the Imperial University, said to have written essays at seven, he joined the circle of Xiao Ziliang, Prince of Jingling, served the Southern Qi in several princely secretariats, and under the Liang was attendant to the Prince of Jin'an; he died in the Tianjian era. His eleven-fascicle collection is lost; over ten poems remain, the best known being the poem on General Huo's northern campaign, included in the Wen Xuan.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active from the Southern Qi into the Liang, died during the Tianjian era (502–519)