Wen Tingyun

Wen Tingyun
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 溫庭筠
Simplified Chinese 温庭筠
Japanese name
Kanji 温庭筠
Hiragana おん　ていいん
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wen.

Wen Tingyun (simplified Chinese: 温庭筠; traditional Chinese: 溫庭筠; 812–870) born Wen Qi (simplified Chinese: 温歧; traditional Chinese: 溫歧; pinyin: Wēn Qí), courtesy name Feiqing (simplified Chinese: 飞卿; traditional Chinese: 飛卿; pinyin: Fēiqīng) was an important Chinese lyricist of the late Tang Dynasty.

He was born in Qin, Shanxi province, China. Over his literary career, Wen became regarded as the first truly distinctive writer of ci, the song-verse style of poetry that dominated Chinese poetry during much of the late Tang dynasty and the Song dynasty.[1] Most of his poems are "boudoir"-style verses that described the opulent furnishings and gardens of solitary women and their hidden desires.[2] This style of poetry was commonly used for romantic communications between men and women in the entertainment districts of the Chinese capital Chang'an during the Tang dynasty.[2]

Yu Xuanji was among his followers.

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  1. ↑ Stephen Owen, An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (New York, London: W.W. Norton, 1996): 565.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Owen (1996): 565.
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