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Zhang Shuai (Liang)
Liang writer from Wu in Wujun, courtesy name Shijian, writing at twelve and ranked by Xiao Gang among the best fu authors.
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 Shijian
Zhang Shuai, courtesy name Shijian, was from Wu in Wujun and lived from 475 to 527. Of the Zhang clan of Wujun, whose Zhang Yong had been a Liu Song grandee, he was composing at twelve, with a poem a day set as his task. He served Southern Qi as editor and crown prince's aide, and Liang as chief clerk to the chancellor. Xiao Gang, writing to Xiao Yi, ranked his fu in the first class. His biography is in Liang shu 33, and several poems are in the Yutai xinyong.
Life and times
Dates 475 CE–527 CE