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Zhang Zhu
Yuan poet and lyricist who studied under Li Cun and Qiu Yuan, rose to Hanlin Chief Academician and was made Duke of Lu.
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 Zhongju · Style name Tuian
Zhang Zhu, courtesy name Zhongju and style name Tuian, was a Yuan poet and lyricist, 1287 to 1368. He studied the Neo-Confucian teachings with Li Cun and poetry with Qiu Yuan, became an assistant at the Imperial College around 1340, and rose through the Hanlin Academy and the post of Director of the Imperial College to Chief Academician, with the title Duke of Lu. About 687 poems and some 133 lyrics survive in the Tuian ji and Tuian ci.
Life and times
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MingWorks
Literature · Lyrics4- Flowers on the Path · Remembering: Across Passes and Hills in a DreamYuanZhang Zhu's long ci of a weary traveller, old letters and a love scattered like clouds on water
- First Spray in the East Wind · Remembering the Plum: The Old Tree Mossed All OverYuanZhang Zhu's long ci remembering early plum blossom in the cold and a dream of seeing it again
- Groping for Fish · Seeing Spring Off: The West Lake RisingYuanZhang Zhu's long ci seeing spring off on West Lake, where the old company of song is gone
- Many Beauties · West Lake: The Evening Hills Are GreenYuanZhang Zhu's long ci on West Lake at evening, its ghosts of the past and its summer pleasures