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His style name was 'Sheng Yu' (圣俞). [1] He passed the jinshi exam in 1051 and had a career in the civil service, but was unsuccessful. He was a prolific poet, with around 3000 works extant; he was popularized as a poet by the younger Ouyang Xiu. Most of his works are in the shi form, but they are much freer in content than those of the Tang ...
There is general agreement that the shi in fangshi 方士 means "master; gentleman; trained specialist" (cf. Daoshi 道士 "Daoist priest; diviner"), but considerable disagreement about the meaning of fang. The etymology of fangshi is "subject to various interpretations", writes DeWoskin.
Collectively, the "2 Immortals He and He", with names meaning "Harmony" and "Union". He: 合 Qin Shubao: 秦叔寶 Tang generals whose image was ordered placed upon gates by the Great Ancestor of the Tang ("Emperor Taizong") Yuchi Gong: 尉遲恭 Sun Bin: 孫臏 Warring-States generals; worshipped in parts of Shaanxi. Pang Juan: 龐涓 Bai Qi ...
Referring to fictions written in the Tang dynasty as chuanqi is established by usage. [3]: 7 In the early 1920s the prominent author and scholar Lu Xun prepared an anthology of Tang and Song chuanqi which was the first modern critical edition of the texts and helped to establish chuanqi as the term by which they are known.
Poem: "Grief" (哀思 ai si), segment of "Happy reunion" (相見歡 xiang jian huan) by Li Yu from Southern Tang "Wishing We Last Forever" ( 但願人長久 ; Danyuan ren changjiu) – 4:06 Music by Liang Hongzhi ( 梁弘志 ), arranged by Xiao Weichen ( 蕭唯忱 )
The earliest record of Shenshu and Yulü occurs in a passage quoted from Shanhaijing (山海經; Classic of Mountains and Seas) in Wang Chong (d., c. 97 AD)'s Lunheng (論衡, "Discourses in the Balance"), although the passage is not found in surviving recensions of the Shanhajing, [1] and the attribution to the earlier work is disputed.
One Heavenly Spirit, Lu Zhishen, is represented in a folktale as a sworn brother of Zhou Tong. [1]According to The Oral Traditions of Yangzhou Storytelling, several popular folktales about Wu Song, a Heavenly Spirit, from the "Wang School" of Yangzhou storytelling, state that he killed the tiger "in the middle of the tenth month" of the "Xuanhe year [1119]" (the emphasis belongs to the ...
Thus, the image expresses a wish that its recipient do well on his exams and become successful. Later a variation on the gibbons and egret motif appears through the substitution of deer for egrets. In mandarin the word "鹿" (lù), meaning deer, is homophonous with "鷺" (lù), meaning egret, and so the image achieves the same pun. [26]