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Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru
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北宋 黃庭堅 草書廉頗藺相如傳 卷
Title:Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru
Calligrapher:Huang Tingjian (Chinese, –)
Period:Northern Song dynasty (–)
Date:ca.
Culture:China
Medium:Handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions:Image: 13 1/4 in. × 60 ft. 4 1/2 in. ( × cm)
Overall with mounting: 13 1/2 in. × 71 ft. 5 5/8 in. ( × cm)
Classification:Calligraphy
Credit Line:Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr.,
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Inscription: Artist's inscription ( columns in semi-cursive and cursive scripts)
Lian Po was an able general of Zhao. In the sixteenth year of King Huiwen, he commanded the Zhao army against Qi and defeated its troops, taking the city of Jinyang. Then he was made a chief minister and was known for his prowess to all the states.
Lin Xiangru, a man of Zhao, was the steward of Miao Xian, the chief eunuch.
King Huiwen had come into possession of t
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Linji Yixuan
Founder of the Linji school of Chan Buddhism (died )
Linji Yixuan (traditional Chinese: 臨濟義玄; simplified Chinese: 临济义玄; pinyin: Línjì Yìxuán; Wade–Giles: Lin-chi I-hsüan; Japanese: 臨済義玄Rinzai Gigen; died CE) was a Tang dynasty () Chinese monk and teacher of the Hongzhou school of Chinese Chan (Zen). Linji was the leading figure of Chan Buddhism in the Tang, and the Recorded Sayings of Linji (Línjì yǔlù), which contains his teachings, is seen as a major Zen text which exemplifies the iconoclastic and antinomian spirit of Zen. He is also known by the posthumous title Huizhao Chanshi (慧照禪師, “Meditation Master of Illuminating Wisdom”).
Linji was a student of Huangbo Xiyun and is also considered to be the founder of the influential Linji school of Chan. This school actually developed in the Song dynasty () among descendants of Linji, who created various mythic stories about Linji in the process of founding their new school of Zen. Today he
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Zu Geng
Biography
Zu Geng is also known by the name Geng Zhi Zu, Zu Xuan or Tsu Keng. He was the son of Zu Chongzhi and so came from a famous family who had for many generations produced outstanding mathematicians. The family was originally from Hopeh province in northern China. Zu Geng's great great grandfather was an official at the court of the Eastern Chin dynasty which had been established at Jiankang (now Nanking). Weakened by court intrigues, the Eastern Chin dynasty was replaced after a revolt by the Liu-Sung dynasty in Zu Geng's great grandfather, grandfather, and father Zu Chongzhi, all served as officials of the Liu-Sung dynasty which also had its court at Jiankang (now Nanking).The Zu family was an extremely talented one with successive generations being, in addition to court officials, astronomers with special interests in the calendar. They handed their mathematical and astronomical skills down from father to son and, indeed, this was one of the main ways t