Writers › Writer / Poet
Han Yuanji
Southern Song ci poet, courtesy name Wujiu, styled Nanjian, from Yongqiu near Kaifeng, who settled in Xinzhou and reached Minister of Personnel.
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 Nanjian
Han Yuanji, courtesy name Wujiu and styled Old Man of Nanjian, was from Yongqiu near Kaifeng, later settled at Shangrao in Xinzhou, and lived from 1118 to about 1187. He studied under Yin Tun, passed the jinshi, served as registrar in Nanjianzhou, magistrate of Jian'an in 1158 and fiscal commissioner of Jiangnan East in 1165, and went on a mission to the Jin. He rose to Minister of Personnel and Duke of Yingchuan. His Nanjian jiayi gao in seventy fascicles was lost by the early Qing, and twenty-two fascicles were recovered from the Yongle dadian. His son Han Biao was also a poet.
Life and times
Dates 1118 CE–c. 1187 CE