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Wang Jin
Southern Qi man of letters, styled Jianqi, whose Inscription for Toutuo Temple in the Wen xuan is a model of Six Dynasties parallel prose on a Buddhist theme.
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 Jianqi · Wang Che (variant)
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Wang Jin, courtesy name Jianqi (sometimes written Wang Che), was a man of letters of the Southern Qi; his dates are unknown. The Wen xuan credits him as Wang Jianqi of the Southern Qi and includes his Inscription for Toutuo Temple, a richly written Buddhist stele text that draws on Sengzhao's Nirvana Is Nameless in twenty-five places and is regarded as a model of Buddhist parallel prose. Little else about his life is reliably recorded.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active in the Southern Qi (479–502 CE)