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Liu Miao
Liang poet from Pengcheng whose Seeing a Mulberry Picker from Ten Thousand Hills and Autumn Boudoir appear 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 Liu Miao of Pengcheng
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Liu Miao came from Pengcheng (modern Xuzhou, Jiangsu) and was a Liang-dynasty poet; his dates and career are unknown. The Jade Terrace anthology places him among the Liang poets and preserves four of his poems, including Seeing a Mulberry Picker from Ten Thousand Hills; Wikisource also lists Watching Someone Weave, Autumn Boudoir and the drum-and-pipe song Breaking the Willow. His verse centres on women's work and boudoir feeling, in the Liang palace style.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active in the Liang dynasty (502-557 CE)