Fan Zhongyan

While serving on the frontier he would play Lü Shuang Cao, reflecting on his situation. Later he studied music theory with Cui Zundu, and they became qin friends.³

He also tried to reform literature as well as government. He set up an important charitable estate to further this work.

His poems with a qin theme include

Folio 18 #74 and #75,
Folio 19A #12,
Folio 19B, #69 and #82
Folio 20A, #35
Folio 20B, #44 - #46 (three poems, or could #40 and #41 be by Su Shunqin?)

The article here mainly consists of a long letter to Tang Yi.

Fan Wenzhonggong Zhongyan, style name Xiwen, when young had the aim of 經國致君，學必師古。 When he heard that Tang Yi was skilled at the qin he wrote him a letter that said,

I have heard that a sage is making a qin...

(There is a more at the end than is in the version in Qinshu Daquan).

Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 ICTCL p.374 (Return)

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3 Hsu Wen-Ying, The Ku-Ch'in, p.191. Her reference is to Lu You, Diary of an Old Scholar" (Return)

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