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Liu Jun
Liang man of letters whose commentary on the Shishuo xinyu cites over four hundred sources and preserves many lost texts.
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 Originally named Fawu · Courtesy name Xiaobiao
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Liu Jun, originally named Fawu and better known by his courtesy name Xiaobiao, came from Pingyuan and lived 462 to 521, a man of letters of the Liang. After the Northern Wei took Qingzhou he entered a monastery in Pingcheng but soon returned to lay life, later going south to the Liang. His commentary on Liu Yiqing's Shishuo xinyu draws on more than four hundred works, many otherwise lost, and three of his prose pieces are in the Wen xuan.
Life and times
Dates 462 CE–521 CE