Yuan Zhong-dao (English spelling)

Japanese: 袁中道 - えんちゅうどう（英語表記）Yuan Zhong-dao

[Born] Ryukei 4 (1570)
[Death] Revelation 2 (1622)
A Chinese poet from the late Ming Dynasty. Born in Gong'an County (Hubei Province). Style name: Xiao Xiu. Together with his elder brothers Yuan Zongdao and Yuan Hongdao, he is known as the "Three Yuans." He went to the capital with his elder brothers early on and associated with notable people. In 1617, he passed the Jinshi examination. Together with his brother, he studied under Li Zhuowu, a leftist of Yangmingism, and formed a school centered around Yuan Hongdao that opposed the formalism of the restorationist literature of the Seven Masters of the Fore and Back Schools, which had been the main force in the literary world since the mid-Ming Dynasty, and advocated the use of free individuality and the respect of pure creative spirit. Depending on the birthplace of the three Yuans, the school is called the Gong'an School, and their style of poetry is called the Gong'an Style. He lived for a dozen years after the death of Yuan Hongdao, but opposed the gradual shift of his followers to vulgarity. He wrote the poetry and prose collection "Kexuesai Collection" (24 volumes).

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Japanese:

[生]隆慶4(1570)
[没]天啓2(1622)
中国，明末の詩人。公安県 (湖北省) の人。字，小修。兄の袁宗道，袁宏道とともに「三袁」と称される。早くから兄とともに都に出て名士たちと交わった。万暦 45 (1617) 年進士に及第。兄とともに陽明学左派の李卓吾に師事し，また袁宏道を中心として，明代中期以来文壇の主勢力であった前後七子の復古派文学の形式主義に反対し，自由な個性を生かし，純粋な創造精神を尊ぶべきだとする一派をつくった。三袁の出身地によってその一派を公安派，その詩体を公安体と呼ぶ。袁宏道の死後，十数年生存したが，その亜流が次第に卑俗に流れるのに反対した。詩文集『珂雪斎集』 (24巻) 。

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