[1]Name and datesHis name, birth and death years, and his identity as a scholar and poet of the late Ming and early Qing.
CBDBQu Dajun (30190)CBDB gives his name as Qu Dajun, with 1630 as his birth year and 1696 as his death year.
Souyun屈大均 (56469)The record lists his name as 屈大均, his birth and death years as 1630 and 1696, and his period as 'late Ming and early Qing'; the biographical dictionaries it cites also describe him as a skilled poet.
WikidataQu Dajun (Q11042295)Wikidata gives his primary label as 屈大均, describes him as a famous scholar of the late Ming and early Qing and one of the Three Great Masters of Lingnan, and records 1630 and 1696 as his birth and death years.
[2]NamesHis original name Qu Shaolong and his other names Jiezi, Wengshan, Lingjun, Huafu and Saoyu; the sources differ slightly on whether Wengshan is a courtesy name or a sobriquet.
CBDBQu Dajun (30190)CBDB lists 屈紹隆 and 屈邵龍 as alternative or earlier names, 介子, 翁山 and 泠君 (also written 冷君) as courtesy names, and 華夫 and 騷餘 as sobriquets.
Souyun屈大均 (56469)The cited biographies give his original name as 紹隆 (in one source 紹龍), the courtesy names Jiezi and Wengshan, and the sobriquets Lingjun, Huafu and Saoyu; one of them treats Wengshan as a sobriquet rather than a courtesy name.
WikidataQu Dajun (Q11042295)Wikidata records Jiezi, Wengshan, Lingjun and Lengjun as courtesy names, Huafu and Saoyu as sobriquets, and 屈紹隆 and 邵龍 as other names.
[3]Native placePanyu in Guangdong as his place of origin.
CBDBQu Dajun (30190)CBDB records his place of origin as Panyu (番禺).
Souyun屈大均 (56469)The record gives his native place as Panyu, Guangdong, as do the biographies it cites.
[4]Studio and art namesHis many studio and art names, among them Luofu shanren, Luofu buyi, Luofu daoshi, Nanhai yimin, Baquanweng, Caipu, Laipu, Feichi, Quduo, Daoyuantang, Si'an, Ershi caotang, Zhongyang tang, Zuxiang yuan, Saosheng tang, Sibai sanshi'er feng caotang and Yiling daoren.
CBDBQu Dajun (30190)CBDB lists his studio and art names as 羅浮山人, 羅浮布衣, 羅浮道士, 南海遺民, 八泉翁, 菜圃, 萊圃, 非池, 屈沱, 道援堂, 死庵, 二史草堂, 忠養堂, 祖香園, 騷聖堂, 四百三十二峰草堂 and 一靈道人.
WikidataQu Dajun (Q11042295)Wikidata also records 四百三十二峰草堂, 羅浮布衣, 二史草堂, 騷聖堂, 羅浮道士, 南海遺民, 羅浮山人, 八泉翁, 萊圃, 一靈道人, 祖香園, 忠養堂, 屈沱, 道援堂, 死庵, 菜圃 and 非池 as names he bore.
[5]Student, teacher and early resistanceHis status as a government student in the late Ming, his study under Chen Bangyan, his joining Chen's troops when the Ming fell and taking command of a unit, his abandonment of student status after Chen's martyrdom, and his early Yongli journey to the Zhaoqing court with the Zhongxing liu dadian shu.
CBDBQu Dajun (30190)CBDB records his school status as a government student (生員, also called 庠生) and notes that he was a student of Chen Bangyan (陳邦彥).
Souyun屈大均 (56469)One biography says he was a student (諸生) in the late Ming; the Quanyue shi says he studied under 陳邦彥 as a youth, joined the army and commanded a unit of his own when the Ming fell, gave up his student status after 陳邦彥 died a martyr, and went to the Zhaoqing court early in the Yongli reign with the memorial Zhongxing liu dadian shu, leaving a proffered palace secretariat post because of his father's illness; another source says he resisted the Qing with his teacher as a youth and was to be given office by the Yongli emperor but returned home when his father fell ill.
[6]Monk and loyalistHis anti-Qing activity with Wei Geng and others, his becoming a monk in 1650 under Hanshi with the dharma name Jinzhong and the name Yiling, his continued secret resistance, his flight beyond the passes after discovery, and his later return to Confucian dress and loyalist life.
CBDBQu Dajun (30190)CBDB records 釋函昰 as his teacher and lists 釋今種 and 一靈 among his names.
Souyun屈大均 (56469)The biographies say that in the early Qing he engaged in anti-Qing activity with Wei Geng and others, became a monk with the dharma name Jinzhong and the name Yiling, kept working secretly against the Qing, and after discovery resumed lay dress and fled beyond the passes; in middle age he returned to Confucian dress and his original name and remained a Ming loyalist to the end.
[7]Northern travelsHis northern travels from 1657, his return to Panyu in 1662, his renewed journey north in 1665, and the range of his travels through Jiangsu, Zhejiang and the northern provinces.
Souyun屈大均 (56469)The Quanyue shi records that in the autumn of Shunzhi 14 he crossed the mountains and travelled north, returning to Panyu in Kangxi 1 and going north again in Kangxi 4; another biography states that his travels covered Jiangsu, Zhejiang and the northern provinces.
[8]Wu Sangui's revoltHis movements between the armies of Chu and Yue during Wu Sangui's revolt, and his withdrawal from the affair.
Souyun屈大均 (56469)The Quanyue shi records that when Wu Sangui rose against the Qing in Kangxi 12 he moved between the armies in Chu and Yue and, seeing that the cause would fail, withdrew from the affair.
[9]Later years and deathHis taking his mother to Jiangnan in 1679, his stay in the Cuiwei mountains with the Yitang group, his return to Guangdong in 1680, his last years in Guangzhou, his death in 1696 and burial at Shating, and the biographies of him in the Qingshi gao and the Shengchao yuedong yimin lu.
Souyun屈大均 (56469)The Quanyue shi records that in Kangxi 18 he took his mother to Jiangnan, wished to settle in Jiangxi and entered the Cuiwei mountains to study with the Yitang group, returning to Guangdong in the autumn of Kangxi 19; that he spent his last years in Guangzhou devoted to writing; that he died in Kangxi 35 at the age of sixty-seven and was buried at Shating in Panyu; and that biographies of him appear in juan 484 of the Qingshi gao and juan 1 of Chen Botao's Shengchao yuedong yimin lu.
[10]FamilyHis family: great-granduncle Qu Qipeng, father-in-law Wang Zhuangyou, wives Chen Huajiang and Wang Huajiang, son Qu Minghong and grandson Qu Zikui.
CBDBQu Dajun (30190)CBDB records his great-granduncle as Qu Qipeng, his father-in-law as Wang Zhuangyou, his wives as Chen Huajiang (1630–1691) and Wang Huajiang, his son as Qu Minghong and his grandson as Qu Zikui.
[11]AssociatesHis friendships with Chen Gongyin, Zhu Yizun, Wang Hongzhuan, Li Yindu and Huang Sheng, and his fellow-student relationship with Chen Gongyin.
CBDBQu Dajun (30190)CBDB lists Chen Gongyin, Zhu Yizun, Wang Hongzhuan, Li Yindu and Huang Sheng as his friends and records that he and Chen Gongyin were fellow students.
[12]Poetic standingHis standing as a poet alongside Chen Gongyin and Liang Peilan as the Three Great Masters of Lingnan, and his place beside Gu Yanwu and Wu Jiaji among early Qing loyalist poets.
Souyun屈大均 (56469)One biography ranks his poetry with that of Chen Gongyin and Liang Peilan as the three masters of Lingnan; another says he was skilled in poetry, was ranked with Chen Gongyin and Liang Peilan as the Three Great Masters of Lingnan, and stood with Gu Yanwu and Wu Jiaji among the loyalists of the early Qing.
WikidataQu Dajun (Q11042295)Wikidata describes him as a famous scholar of the late Ming and early Qing and one of the Three Great Masters of Lingnan.
[13]Critical assessmentThe assessment of his poetry by contemporaries: unmatched talent, travels on the frontier, friendships with remarkable men, an unrivalled spirit, and the character of his regulated verse in seven and five characters.
Souyun屈大均 (56469)The Qing shi bie cai ji says that Wengshan's talent was unmatched, that he travelled the frontier regions and befriended extraordinary men, and that his poetry therefore carried a spirit that brooked no equal; his seven-character regulated verse was lofty and unadorned, and his five-character regulated verse was like red clouds at the edge of the sky or a white crane among the clouds, hard to approach.
[14]WorksHis works, including the poetry and prose collections, Guangdong xinyu, the Daoyuantang collection, the records of Ming loyalists and the Anlong history; his ci collection Saoxie; the modern Complete Works; and the Qianlong-era bans on his books.
CBDBQu Dajun (30190)CBDB lists his works as 詩外 (17 juan), 翁山文外 (14 juan), 翁山易外, 廣東新語 (26 juan), 道援堂詩集, 四朝成仁錄, 安龍逸史 (2 juan) and 騷屑詞 (2 juan), among others.
Souyun屈大均 (56469)The cited sources record 翁山文外 and 翁山詩外, 廣東新語, 四朝成仁錄 (all banned in the Qianlong reign), 道援堂集, 翁山文鈔 and 翁山易外; they note that his ci collection is entitled 騷屑, also known as 道援堂詞, and that modern editors have compiled the Complete Works of Qu Dajun.