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Zhu Qingyu
Mid-to-late Tang poet of Yuezhou, personal name Kejiu, who passed the jinshi in 826; best known for Presenting to Vice-Minister Zhang before the Exam.
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 Personal name Kejiu · Zhu Qingyu (variant character)
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Zhu Qingyu, whose personal name was Kejiu and who went by his courtesy name, came from Yuezhou (modern Shaoxing, Zhejiang), though the Tang Caizi Zhuan says Min; he was a mid-to-late Tang poet whose dates are unknown. He passed the jinshi in 826 and served as a collator. He presented poems to the vice-minister Zhang Ji; his Presenting to Vice-Minister Zhang before the Exam, also titled Boudoir Feelings, compares the candidate to a new bride asking if her appearance pleases, and became very famous. Two of his poems are in the Three Hundred Tang Poems.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; took the jinshi in 826 CE