Ruan Ji
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Ruan Ji, courtesy name Sizong, was a Chinese musician, poet, and military officer who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. He was one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
Memorial tombstone of Ruan Ji's life in Nanjing
"Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove", Shaanxi Provincial Museum
Seven saints in the bamboo wood
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Six Dynasties poetry
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Six Dynasties poetry refers to the types or styles of poetry particularly associated with the Six Dynasties era of Chinese history. This poetry reflects one of the poetry world's more important flower
Ruan Ji
…into peril, his time period being the Period of Disunity. Ruan Ji was poetically part of both the poetry of the Jian'an period and the beginning of the Six Dynasties poetry developments. He would embrace the poetic side of what the times offered him, and even managed to avoid many political dangers, turmoils, and snares…
Master Jingjie (the posthumous name for Tao Yuanming). Text at top is from the Fu style poem 歸去來兮. By Wang Zhongyu, Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
Cao Cao cites a poem before the Battle of Red Cliffs. Portrait at the Long Corridor of the Summer Palace, Beijing.
The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (with boy attendant), in a Kano school Japanese painting of the Edo period
Possible representation of Ruan Ji. Attributed to Sun Wei, second half of 9th century.