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Yao Yunwen
Song-Yuan transition ci poet, courtesy name Shengrui, styled Jiangcun, also Ruochuan, whose Ziyu xiang man lyric for the Double Ninth is in the Song ci san bai shou.
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 Shengrui · Jiangcun · Ruochuan
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Yao Yunwen, courtesy name Shengrui, styled Jiangcun and also known as Ruochuan, was a ci poet of the Song-Yuan transition; his dates and birthplace are not verified here. His Ziyu xiang man is a Double Ninth lyric, opening with the approach of the festival and its steady wind and rain, and carrying a sense of a dispersed world; it is included in the Song ci san bai shou. Harvard's CBDB records Shengrui, Ruochuan and Jiangcun among his names.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; a poet of the Song-Yuan transition