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Tang Huixiu
Liu Song monk-poet, born Tang, ordained young and later ordered back to lay life by Emperor Xiaowu; his Yuan Shi Xing was admired for its tender longing.
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 Huixiu the Venerable · Venerable Xiu
Tang Huixiu, born with the surname Tang, entered the Buddhist order young and was known as the Venerable Huixiu, a poet of the Liu Song. Emperor Xiaowu ordered him back to lay life, and he later served as a clerk in Yangzhou. Because Zhong Rong's Shipin calls him 'the Venerable Huixiu of Qi', he may have died early in the Southern Qi. Eleven poems survive, led by Yuan Shi Xing; Jiang Yan's Zati shi imitates him in Xiu Shangren's Farewell Lament. His dates are unknown.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active in the reign of Emperor Xiaowu of Liu Song (454-464 CE)