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Guanpu Naidewen
Southern Song writer whose real name is unknown, who signed himself Guanpu Naidewen and wrote the preface to the Ducheng Jisheng in 1235.
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 Naidewen
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Guanpu Naidewen is the author of the Ducheng Jisheng; his real name, native place and birth and death years are all unknown. He signs the preface only with the pen name Guanpu Naidewen, and the book also calls him Naidewen. The preface is dated the first day of the year yiwei of the Duanping era, which is 1235, and says that since Emperor Gaozong made his residence at Hangzhou, the city has had fair hills and waters and a people at peace and well supplied. The book is arranged in fourteen sections, among them markets, trades, wine shops, eating houses and tea houses, and describes the city and daily life of Lin'an, the Southern Song capital. No firm record of the author's real identity has been found.
Life and times
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Songwrote the preface to the Ducheng Jisheng in 1235 - UnknownDied
Works
Literature · Prose1- Ducheng JishengSongA Southern Song author's record of Hangzhou's city life in fourteen sections, written in 1235