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Wang Yun
Liang writer of the Langya Wang clan who rose to Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince; 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 Courtesy name Yuanli · Courtesy name Yuankui
Wang Yun, courtesy name Yuanli (also Yuankui), came from Linyi in Langya and lived 481 to 549 in the Liang dynasty. A scion of the Langya Wang clan, he held posts including Crown Prince's Secretary, Director of the Palace Library, Minister of Revenue and Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince. He compiled a series of collections named for his offices, most now lost; Ming scholars gathered the Wang Zhanshi ji, and his poems appear in the Yutai xinyong.
Life and times
Dates 481 CE–549 CE