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Xie Zhuang
Liu Song writer from Yangxia whose Yue Fu, a rhapsody on the moon, is in the Wen Xuan; he served as Minister of Personnel and credited with an early relief map.
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 Xi Yi
Xie Zhuang, courtesy name Xiyi, was from Yangxia in Chen Commandery, son of Xie Hongwei, and was born in 421. He held posts including Palace Attendant, Minister of Personnel and Director of the Secretariat. His Yue Fu on the moon is in the Wen Xuan, as is his eulogy for Consort Xuan of Emperor Xiaowu of Song. He is credited with a wooden terrain model that could be taken apart, among the earliest relief models on record. Jailed after a line of a eulogy offended Emperor Qianfei, he escaped when the ruler was overthrown, and died in Jiankang in 466.
Life and times
Dates 421 CE–466 CE