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Qiu Juyuan
Writer and official of the Song-Qi transition from Lanling, who helped compile the national history and was executed for a satirical Qiu Hu poem.
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 Qiu Juyuan (variant surname character)
Qiu Juyuan, also written Qiu, was from Lanling and active between the Liu Song and Southern Qi. Recommended as filial and upright, he found favour with Emperor Xiaowu of Song and in 461 helped Xu Ai compile the national history. Under Emperor Ming he handled documents, joined Wang Jingwen's staff and drafted proclamations against Liu Xiufan and Shen Youzhi, repeatedly feeling his service unrewarded; his letter to Yuan Can was rebuffed. Under the Qi he declined the governorship of Wuchang and was made magistrate of Yuhang. While Xiao Luan governed Wuxing he wrote a Qiu Hu poem satirizing the government and was put to death.
Life and times
- UnknownBorn
Northern and Southernactive from Emperor Xiaowu of Song to early Southern Qi (c. 461–494 CE) - UnknownDied
Works
Literature · Poetry2- On a Fan of the Seven TreasuresNorthern and SouthernQiu Juyuan's object poem on a jewelled fan, prized while new and set aside as the season turns
- Listening to the Singing Girls Next DoorNorthern and SouthernQiu Juyuan, alone behind a poor gate, hears a rich neighbour's music and muses on lost glory