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Ye Cai
Southern Song Neo-Confucian scholar, courtesy name Zhonggui, a later follower of Zhu Xi, whose Jinsilu jijie is the most widely used commentary on that anthology.
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 Zhonggui · Pingyan
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Ye Cai, courtesy name Zhonggui and styled Pingyan, was a Southern Song Neo-Confucian whose dates are unknown and who is described as a later follower of Zhu Xi. Drawing mainly on Zhu Xi's sayings, he worked on it for some thirty years and completed the Jinsilu jijie in the Chunyou era, annotating the anthology compiled by Zhu Xi and Lu Zuqian. The commentary remained popular from the Southern Song to the mid-Qing and shaped later commentators; the common Ming printings from the Jiajing to Wanli years were Zhou Gongshu's reclassified edition.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active in the Chunyou era of the Southern Song (1241–1252 CE)