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Lu Chui
Liang writer from Wu Commandery, youngest of the Eight Friends of Jingling, whose Shique Ming and Xin Kelou Ming are in the Wen Xuan.
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 Zuo Gong
Lu Chui, courtesy name Zuogong, from Wu in Wu Commandery and son of Lu Huixiao, was born in 470. He served Southern Qi, then under Liang became Crown Prince's Attendant and Erudite of the Imperial Academy, the youngest of the Eight Friends of Jingling. Gifted with a remarkable memory, he could recite the Wuxing treatise of the Han History, and wrote running and cursive script. His Xin Kelou Ming and Shique Ming, written for Emperor Wu of Liang, are in the Wen Xuan; he also sent Gan Zhiji Fu to his friend Ren Fang. He died in 526.
Life and times
Dates 470 CE–526 CE