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Sun Daoxuan
Southern Song woman lyricist from Jian'an and wife of Huang Yunxuan, later styled Layman Chongxu; her lyrics are gathered as the Chongxu ci.
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 Layman Chongxu
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Sun Daoxuan was a Southern Song woman lyricist from Jian'an (modern Jian'ou, Fujian); her dates are unknown. She was the wife of Huang Yunxuan and in later life styled herself Layman Chongxu, and her son Huang Shu wrote the preface to her collected works. Her Chongxu ci, in Zhao Wanli's edition, contains eight lyrics, five of which also appear in the Tang Song zhuxian juemiao cixuan and Huaan cixuan. The Baixiang cipu includes her Nanxiangzi.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; a woman of the Southern Song (1127–1279 CE)