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...Anna M. Shields Abstract In the reception of Tang literature during the Song Dynasty, the anthology Wen cui 文粹 (Literature's Finest), compiled by the Northern Song scholar Yao Xuan 姚鉉 (968–1020) in 1011, survives as the earliest attempt by an individual scholar to provide a comprehensive overview...

... through various approaches. Professor Shields's article looks at one of the early attempts to influence thinking about these matters, which took the form of an anthology of Tang writing titled Wen cui (Literature's Finest), compiled in 1011 by a scholar working on his own rather than by imperial...

... discussion will examine four men and four women from three generations. These include Bao Zheng and his wife, Miss Dong 董 (1001–1068); their elder daughter-in-law, Miss Cui 崔 (1033–1094, wife of Bao Yi 包繶, 1020s–1052); their younger son, Bao Shou 包綬 (1058–1105), and Shou's wife, Miss Wen 文 (1160s–1102...

..., 重耳敢不拜 ( Zuozhuan , Xi 23.6, 1:410–11). Hu Yan is one of Chong'er's most resourceful advisors, but here he defers to Zhao Cui, whose greater “cultivation” ( wen 文) or fuller mastery of ritual and textual traditions better equips him for diplomatic exchange. According to the Zuozhuan scholar Du...

... origins ( ZT Zhuang 28.2, 1:212–13, 666 BCE), and Chong'er 重耳 (Lord Wen of Jin 晉文公) (r. 636–628 BCE) and his adviser Zhao Cui 趙衰 (d. 622 BCE) both married Di women while in exile ( ZT Xi 23.6a, 1:364–65, 637 BCE). How, then, should we treat assertions of cultural difference between Chinese...

..., in the comments on “Da Weizhi shu,” a letter excerpted from Yuan Zhen's 元稹 (779–831) classical tale “Yingying zhuan” 鶯鶯傳 (Biography of Yingying). In Wen zhi “Da Weizhi shu” is attributed to the story's female protagonist Cui Yingying. The letter consists of Yingying's reply to her absentee lover student Zhang...

... of various modes of narration within a poem, Du Fu's work shows a key distinguishing feature we might term shi zhong you wen 詩中有文, or “prose within poem.” At the same time, in his mid-to-long poems, Du Fu was able both to bend the inherent capacity of the wugu for narration to its greatest expressive...

... Cui Dong langzhong Beishan an) by Yan Wei 嚴維 (?–780). Another illustrative example are the poems titled “Spring Frost” ( chunhan 春寒). There are seven poems from different dynasties with this title in the YWSX , and although all of them describe cold spells in spring, two of them (by poets Wen...

... : Zhonghua shuju 中華書局 , 1992 . Chen You-Bing 陳友冰 and Wang De-Shou 王德壽 . Song ci qingshang: Bei Song pian 宋詞清賞、北宋篇 ( Selected Appreciations of Song Lyrics: Northern Song ), 138 – 39 . Taipei : Cheng Chung shuju 正中書局 , 2001 . Cheng Wen-Huei 鄭文惠 , Chao-Lin Liu 劉昭麟 , Chiu Wei-Yun 邱偉雲...

.... This article traces the evolution of Su's practice, focusing first on the close relationship with a cousin, the bamboo painter Wen Tong 文同 (1018–79). Examination of communication between the two men sets a historical framework through the decade of the 1070s leading to Su's first exile at Huangzhou...

... construction: the selection of their poems into the Wen xuan 文選 (Selections of Refined Literature). Xiao Tong and other editors of the Wen xuan included writings by Jian'an writers and Xie Lingyun's imitation poems. The Liang dynasty (502–557) literati, such as Xiao Tong 蕭統 (501–531), Liu Xiaochuo 劉孝綽 (481...

... sao jing” 離騷經, in Xiao Tong, comp., Wen xuan 文選 (facsimile rept. of Song ed, Taipei: Zhengzhong, 1976), 32.18a And see Liu Xin, “Suichu fu” in Qian Xizuo 錢熙祚, ed., Guwen yuan 古文苑. Guoxue jiben congshu ed., 5.123. 13. See Fang Xuanling 房玄齡, ed., Jin shu (Beijing: Zhonghua, 1982), 49.1361...

... Disparaging Wangsun” (Zeng wangsun wen 憎王孫文), the reference to the macaque as wangsun now portrays it as the “bad monkey,” in contrast to the gibbon as the “good monkey”: Gibbons and macaques [ wangsun ] dwell on different mountains; being of different natures, they cannot countenance each other...

... in poetry creation. To facilitate the writing of poetry, Kangxi commissioned the compilation of several manuals for rhythms. In 1711 a voluminous manual Pei wen yun fu 佩文韻府 (A Dictionary of Rhymes from the Studio Adorned with Culture) was published by Wuyingdian 武英殿 (Hall of Warriors) under the editorship...

..., namely, longevity, fertility, and family prosperity. Virtuous women are everywhere in Ming–Qing fiction. The best example is Lady Shui 水夫人, the mother of protagonist Wen Suchen 文素臣, in Xia Jingqu's Yesou puyan 野叟曝言 (A Country Codger's Words of Exposure). She is a “Confucian matriarch” 聖母...

... constituted part of the elite and popular culture that recognizes the interdependence between wen 文 (civil) and wu 武 (military), which influenced the sect members' later adoption of martial arts as a complementary practice to meditation. Hence, the military theme—embellished with fantastic elements...

... on the southern territories and even threatened the safety of the southern capital of Jiankang 建康. The reign of Emperor Taiwu, which witnessed the northern dynasty's consolidation and expansion, almost exactly coincided with that of Liu Yilong 劉義隆 (407–453, r. 424–453), Emperor Wen of the Song. In the south...

... deserves more critical attention. 1. Yijian is the name given in Liezi to a legendary recorder of strange tales and miracles; see Liezi jishi 5 (“Tang wen” 湯問 [The Questions of Tang)], 98. An excellent general introduction to the work and its compiler, Hong Mai, is found in Zhang, Record...

... artists made bodhisattva images for personal reasons, however: Ms. Qiu, for example, worked as a professional 54 and made paintings that appealed to her clientele. In certain cases, Tang Shuyu deemphasizes women's virtuous qualities. A passage in the entry on Wen Shu 文淑 (elsewhere written Wen Shu 文...

... in the anthology is by Wen Peng 文彭 and called “Qiu gui” 秋閨 (Woman in Autumn): A drooping poplar casts its silhouette onto the bridge. 垂楊映畫橋 A small path becomes lost among the fragrant grasses. 小徑迷芳草 The first half of the picture shows a pendulous poplar tree and a small bridge, while the second...