Zhu Shuzhen
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Died1180 (aged 44–45)
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
OccupationPoet
Notable workHeartbreaking Verse
Zhu Shuzhen | |||||||||
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朱淑真 | |||||||||
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| Born | 1135 | ||||||||
| Died | 1180 (aged 44–45) Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China | ||||||||
| Occupation | Poet | ||||||||
| Notable work | Heartbreaking Verse | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 朱淑真 | ||||||||
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| Youqi Jushi | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 幽棲居士 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 幽栖居士 | ||||||||
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Zhu Shuzhen (Chinese: 朱淑真; c. 1135 – 1180)[1] was a Chinese poet who lived during the Song dynasty.[2] She married an official with whom she had a bad marriage. She either had an affair or committed suicide. After her death, her parents burned poetry that she had written.
There is no firm evidence of Zhu's existence. Her poems were first collected by a twelfth-century official named Wei Duanli, who stated that he happened to hear them in inns in the area of Hangzhou. Although Wei cites a biography by one Wang Tanzuo of Hangzhou, which is not extant, the research of Huang Yanli has established that most of the detailed traditions regarding Zhu first surfaced in the writing of Ming anthologists.[3]
