Liu Zongyuan

Liu Zongyuan (Chinese: 柳宗元; pinyin: Liǔ Zōngyuán; Wade-Giles: Liu Tsungyüan) (773–819), courtesy name Zihou (子厚), was a Chinese writer who lived in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty. Liu was born in present-day Yongji, Shanxi, along with Han Yu, he was a founder of the Classical Prose Movement. He was traditionally classed as one of the Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song.

Civil service career[link]

His civil service career was initially successful, but in 805 he fell from favour because of his association with a failed reformist movement. He was exiled first to Yongzhou, Hunan, and then to Liuzhou, Guangxi, where he eventually became the city Governor. His exile allowed his literary career to flourish: he produced poems, fables, reflective travelogues and essays synthesizing elements of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.

Works[link]

Landscape by Zhou Wenjing, featuring part of Liu Zongyuan's poem "Winter Snow" in the upper right corner ("孤舟蓑笠翁，獨釣寒江雪")

Liu's best-known travel pieces are the Eight Records of Excursions in Yongzhou (永州八游记). Around 180 of his poems are extant, of which five have been collected in the anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems. Some of his works celebrate his freedom from office, while others mourn his banishment. One of his most famous poems has been often translated into English as "Winter Snow", or something similar: this poem has also been depicted in Chinese Painting many times.

See also[link]

• Classical Chinese poetry
• List of Three Hundred Tang Poems poets
• Tang poetry

References[link]

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• Qian, Zonglian, Liu Zongyuan. Encyclopedia of China (Chinese Literature Edition), 1st ed.
• Chen, Jo-shui, Liu Tsung-yüan and Intellectual Chang in T'ang China, 773-819, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• Nienhauser Jr., William H.; Hartmann, Charles; Crawford, William Bruce; Walls, Jan W.; Neighbours, Lload, Liu Tsung-yüan, New York: Twayne Publishers Inc., 1973.

External links[link]

• Liu Zongyuan in Wengu textbase, five poems in traditional Chinese arrayed with Bynner's translation.
• Biography and translations of five poems. (Translated by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping)

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Wei Yingwu (traditional Chinese: 韋應物; simplified Chinese: 韦应物; pinyin: Wéi​ Yìng​wù​) (737–792), and also transliterated into English "Wei Yinwu" or "Wei Yin-wu", was a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty, with twelve of his poems being included in the famous anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.

Poetry[link]

Wei Yingwu poems collected in Three Hundred Tang Poems were translated by Witter Bynner as:

• "Entertaining Literary Men in my Official Residence on a Rainy Day"
• "Setting Sail on the Yangzi to Secretary Yuan"
• "A Poem to a Taoist Hermit Chuanjiao Mountain"
• "On Meeting my Friend Feng Zhu in the Capital"
• "Mooring at Twilight in Yuyi District"
• "East of the Town"
• "To my Daughter on Her Marriage Into the Yang Family"
• "A Greeting on the Huai River to my Old Friends from Liangchuan"
• "A Farewell in the Evening Rain to Li Cao"
• "To my Friends Li Dan and Yuanxi"
• "An Autumn Night Message to Qiu"
• "At Chuzhou on the Western Stream"

Biography[link]

According to John C. H. Wu, the turbulence and lack of strong central leadership of China during Wei Yingwu's poetry-writing years was a major influencing factor upon his work. One example of such sociopolitical turmoil is the An Shi Rebellion of 755-763. Wu suggests that images such as the boat moving without a person steering in "At Chuzhou on the Western Stream" is a reference to the ship of state without a person at the helm.^[1]

Translations[link]

Wei Yingwu was translated by Red Pine (Bill Porter) as In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), for which he won the Best Translated Book Award, from the book translation press of the University of Rochester; and the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)'s inaugural Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize in 2010.

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Wu, John C. H. (1972). The Four Seasons of Tang Poetry. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E.Tuttle. ISBN 978-0-8048-0197-3

This article incorporates information from this version of the equivalent article on the Chinese Wikipedia.