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Jiang Hong
Poet of the Qi–Liang transition from Jiyang, who began among Xiao Ziliang's literary circle at the Western Mansion, later served as magistrate of Jianyang and was executed; eight of his poems are in the Yutai Xinyong.
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 Jiang Hong, Magistrate of Jianyang
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Jiang Hong came from Jiyang and was a poet of the Southern Qi–Liang years. When Xiao Ziliang, Prince of Jingling, recruited writers to his Western Mansion, Jiang was a student at the Imperial Academy and was among those summoned with Wang Sengru and Yu Xi; at a candlelit gathering he took part in the bronze-bowl rhyming contest. He later became magistrate of Jianyang and was put to death for an offence. His dates are unknown; the Yutai Xinyong preserves eight poems by him, mostly on objects and on women's feelings.
Life and times
- UnknownBorn
Northern and Southernactive around the Yongming era of Southern Qi - UnknownDied
Works
Literature · Poetry4- On a Singing GirlNorthern and SouthernJiang Hong's singing girl: her makeup, her voice rising and sinking, her face half behind gauze
- On a Dancing GirlNorthern and SouthernJiang Hong's dancer: a slender waist, pearls at her elbows, a glance held back at each turn
- On Red NotepaperNorthern and SouthernJiang Hong on red notepaper, bright as lotus and dawn cloud, carrying parting and longing
- On the Rose · Planted by the DoorNorthern and SouthernJiang Hong on the roses by the door, whose scent and drifting petals unsettle a spring chamber