[1]Dates and identityXu Can is identified as a woman poet and painter of the Qing dynasty; her life dates are given as 1610–1678 and approximately 1618–1698.
CBDBXu Can (54845)The identity, dates, gender, dynasty, and status fields identify Xu Can as a Qing woman poet and painter, with dates of 1610–1678.
Souyun徐燦 (62892)The profile and biographical passages identify Xu Can as a Qing woman associated with poetry and painting and give an approximate span of 1618–1698.
WikidataXu Can (Q45436569)The item identifies Xu Can as a Qing-dynasty person and supplies time values for 1610 and 1678.
[2]Name and native placeThe name Can is an alternate form, while the native place is variously associated with Wu County in Jiangsu, Suzhou or Jiangnan Wu County, and Hangzhou in Zhejiang.
CBDBXu Can (54845)The name field gives Xu Can, and the native-place field gives Wu County.
Souyun徐燦 (62892)The biographical passages give the place as Jiangsu, Suzhou, or Jiangnan Wu County, while another passage gives Hangzhou in Zhejiang, and one also preserves the alternate name Can.
[3]Courtesy names and sobriquetsXu Can’s recorded courtesy names and sobriquets include Xiangpin, Xiangping, Xiangqi, Mingshen, Shenming, Mingxia, Ziyan, and 紫䇾; she studied Buddhism in later life.
CBDBXu Can (54845)The alternate-name fields record Xiangpin and Mingshen as courtesy names and 紫䇾 as a studio name or sobriquet.
Souyun徐燦 (62892)The aliases and biographical passages add Xiangqi, Xiangping, Shenming, Mingxia, Mingshen, Xiangpin, and Ziyan, and state that she adopted Buddhism in later life and used 紫䇾.
WikidataXu Can (Q45436569)The item’s names and alias claim corroborate Xiangpin and 湘蘋 as forms of her name.
[4]Family and marriageXu Zimao was Xu Can’s father and served as a Guanglu si cheng; Xu Can was Chen Zhilin’s wife, with some accounts calling her his second wife.
CBDBXu Can (54845)The kinship fields identify Xu Zimao as her father and Chen Zhilin as her husband.
Souyun徐燦 (62892)The biographical passages identify Xu Zimao as a Guanglu si cheng’s daughter’s father and describe Chen Zhilin as her husband or second wife’s husband, with grand-secretary titles.
WikidataXu Can (Q45436569)The item includes explicit father and spouse relationship values for Xu Can.
[5]Poetic exchange in the capitalWhile living with Chen Zhilin in the capital, Xu Can joined him in linked poems beneath the flowers, with lines suggesting a wish that he retire.
Souyun徐燦 (62892)The biographical passage says that the couple joined in poems beneath the flowers while living in the capital and that the lines suggested his retirement.
[6]Banishment and returnChen Zhilin was dismissed and banished after bribing a palace eunuch; Xu Can accompanied him for seven years in the frontier region, described as beyond the frontier or Liaozuo, and returned after his death.
Souyun徐燦 (62892)The passages describe Chen’s severe censure and frontier banishment, attribute the dismissal to bribing an inner palace attendant, state that Xu lived with him in the frontier region for seven years, and say that she returned after his death.
[7]Return south in 1666In 1666, Xu Can appealed by the roadside when the emperor visited the imperial tombs, was permitted to return south, settled beside Tongxi, and spent her remaining years in Buddhist vegetarian devotion.
Souyun徐燦 (62892)The passage dates the appeal and southward return to the fifth year of Kangxi (1666), and describes her settlement beside Tongxi and her later Buddhist vegetarian life.
[8]Children and relativesXu Can had four sons; Xu Wenlin is described as both a niece and a collateral niece, and Xu Yuan as her grandaunt. Chen Kanyong died in 1667 and Xu Wenlin in 1666.
CBDBXu Can (54845)The kinship fields list four sons, Xu Wenlin as a collateral niece/niece, and Xu Yuan as a grandaunt, with deaths in 1667 and 1666 respectively for Chen Kanyong and Xu Wenlin.
WikidataXu Can (Q45436569)The item contains four child relationship values, corroborating the presence of four children, although the values themselves do not name them.
[9]Literary and artistic abilityXu Can was accomplished in prose and poetry, especially ci, calligraphy, and painting; her ci follows a Northern Song style and rejects affected delicacy.
CBDBXu Can (54845)The status fields classify her as a painter and poet.
Souyun徐燦 (62892)The passages describe her prose, poetry, ci, calligraphy, and painting, and characterize her ci as Northern Song in style and free of affected delicacy.
[10]Guanyin painting and critical praiseIn later life Xu Can painted ink Guanyin images; Chen Weisong ranked her first among women lyricists after the Southern Song, while other praise compared her with Li Qingzhao and placed her above merely being the Qing’s foremost woman writer.
Souyun徐燦 (62892)The passages mention her later ink Guanyin paintings and preserve the praise associated with Chen Weisong, Li Qingzhao, and her standing among Qing women writers.
[11]WorksHer associated works include the three-juan Poems and Lyrics from the Zhuozheng Garden, the two-juan Poems from the Zhuozheng Garden, variant collection titles, and the six-juan Xu Yangxi Collection attributed to her.
CBDBXu Can (54845)The works list gives the three-juan and two-juan Zhuozheng Garden titles and identifies Xu Yangxi Collection as a work whose role is authorship.
Souyun徐燦 (62892)The biographical passages give the variant titles Zhuozheng Garden Poetry and Lyrics Collection, Zhuozheng Garden Collection, and Zhuozheng Garden Poetry and Lyrics.
[12]Prefaces and postscriptsAssociated prefaces are attributed to Wu Qian and Chen Zhilin, while associated postscripts are attributed to Chen Kanyong, Chen Jianyong, Chen Rongyong, Chen Fenyong, and Chen Jingzhang.
CBDBXu Can (54845)The relationship entries identify Wu Qian and Chen Zhilin as associated preface writers and Chen Kanyong, Chen Jianyong, Chen Rongyong, Chen Fenyong, and Chen Jingzhang as associated postscript writers.
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