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Shu Xi
Western Jin scholar, courtesy name Guangwei, who helped edit the Jizhong bamboo texts and wrote the Bu Wang Shi, filling in six lost songs of the Book of Songs.
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 Guangwei
Shu Xi, courtesy name Guangwei, came from Yuancheng in Yangping (east of modern Daming, Hebei) and was a Western Jin writer and scholar, a descendant of Shu Guang, Grand Tutor to the Han crown prince. In the early Taikang years he was an imperial historian and secretariat gentleman, and helped edit the bamboo books from the Ji tomb with Xun Xu and Wei Heng, a corpus including the Bamboo Annals and Tale of King Mu. His Bu Wang Shi, six poems, restores the titles of lost songs of the Book of Songs such as Nangai and Baihua; he also wrote the Famengji, Exhortation to Farming and Rhapsody on Cakes. He resigned in 300 and died soon after.
Life and times
Dates 262 CE–300 CE