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Wang Maolin
Early Qing poet and lyricist from Jiangdu, a jinshi of 1667 who rose to secretary in the Ministry of Justice, author of the Baichi Wutong Ge Ji.
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 Jiyong · Hao Jiaomen
Wang Maolin, courtesy name Jiyong (also written Jijiao) and sobriquet Jiaomen, came from Jiangdu (modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu) and was born in 1640. He passed the jinshi in 1667, was made secretary in the Grand Secretariat, became a drafting official in 1670 and rose to secretary in the Ministry of Justice; in 1679 he sat the special Erudite Scholar examination but took no post. A poet and lyricist, he left the twenty-six-fascicle Baichi Wutong Ge Ji and died in 1688 aged forty-nine. The Baixiang Cipu includes his lyric to the tune Wu Jiaqi.
Life and times
Dates 1640 CE–1688 CE