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Weng Juan
Southern Song poet from Yueqing and one of the Four Spirits of Yongjia, whose village poem Four Months in the Country is in the Qianjia shi.
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 Xugu · Alternative courtesy name Lingshu
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- Writer / Poet
Weng Juan, courtesy name Xugu or Lingshu, was from Yueqing in Zhejiang and lived 1163 to 1245. With Xu Zhao, Xu Ji and Zhao Shixiu he formed the Four Spirits of Yongjia, whose verse followed the late Tang manner; he never held office. His collections include the Siyan ji (given as Xiyan ji in the Wenzhou gazetteer) and the Weibi xuan ji, and the Qianjia shi includes his Four Months in the Country.
Life and times
Dates 1163 CE–1245 CE