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Zhu Sifa
Lyricist of the late Song and early Yuan from Wucheng, holding the rank of Gentleman for Court Service; his lyric to Mo Yu Er is in Three Hundred Song Lyrics.
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 Courtesy name Shirong · Style name Xueya
Zhu Sifa, courtesy name Shirong and sobriquet Xueya, came from Wucheng. Born in 1234 and dying in 1304, he lived through the end of the Song and the start of the Yuan and held the rank of Gentleman for Court Service. After his death Mou Yan wrote his epitaph, preserved in Mou Yan's Lingyang ji. Three Hundred Song Lyrics includes one of his lyrics, to the tune Mo yu'er.
Life and times
Dates 1234–1304 CE