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Wang Sengru
Liang-dynasty man of letters who began under Prince Jingling of Qi, rose to Censor-in-Chief, mastered genealogical learning, and has poems in the Jade Terrace anthology.
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 Courtesy name Sengru · Wang the Left Assistant
Wang Sengru came from Tanxian in Donghai (modern Tancheng, Shandong) and lived through the Qi and Liang. Under Qi he was an erudite at the Imperial Academy and joined the circle of Prince Jingling, Xiao Ziliang, helping compile the Siku Yaolue. Under Liang he served as governor of Nanhai, Censor-in-Chief and aide to the Prince of Nankang. The Book of Liang credits him with genealogical works such as the Shiba Zhou Pu. His thirty-scroll collected works are lost; a Ming editor reassembled them as the Wang Zuocheng Ji, and the Jade Terrace anthology preserves a number of his poems.
Life and times
Dates 465 CE–522 CE