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Xun Chang
Liu Song poet from Yingyin in Yingchuan who reached the post of Secretariat Gentleman on his literary talent; his imitative yuefu 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 Maozu
Xun Chang, courtesy name Maozu, came from Yingyin in Yingchuan and was a Liu Song poet whose dates are unknown. In the early years of Emperor Wen's Yuanjia era he rose to Secretariat Gentleman on the strength of his writing. The Yutai xinyong includes two of his imitative yuefu poems, among them the Imitation of Green, Green Grows the Grass by the River; one annotated edition reads his Imitation of We Meet on a Narrow Road as an account of travel through Jingxing, among the earliest such poems.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active in Emperor Wen of Song's Yuanjia era (424–453 CE)