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Zhou Hongzheng
Scholar-official of Liang and Chen, courtesy name Sixing, expert on the Yijing, Laozi and Zhuangzi, who rose to Right Vice-Director of the Chen secretariat and wrote the Zhouyi Jiangshu.
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 Sixing
Zhou Hongzheng, courtesy name Sixing, was a scholar and official of Liang and Chen. Under Liang he served as erudite and then Rector at the Imperial Academy, palace attendant and minister of civil affairs; after Chen Baxian took the throne in 557 he became Grand Master of the Crown Prince's Household, and after returning from the north in 562 he rose to palace attendant, Rector of the Academy and Right Vice-Director of the Chen secretariat, dying in office in 574. A master of the mysteries, he compiled the sixteen-scroll Zhouyi Jiangshu and commentaries on the Analects, Zhuangzi, Laozi and Xiaojing, plus a collection; the Gu Shi Yuan includes his poem Returning to the Thatched Hall to Seek My Hermit Brother.
Life and times
Dates 496 CE–574 CE