Xu Ling (English spelling)

Japanese: 徐陵 - じょりょう（英語表記）Xu Ling

[Live] Tiankan 6 (507)
[Death] Shitoku 1 (583)
A Chinese writer and politician of the Liang and Chen dynasties of the Six Dynasties. Born in Donghai, Tan (Shandong Province). His courtesy name was Xiaomu (橆). His posthumous name was Zhang. He showed extraordinary talent from an early age, and is said to have been familiar with Laozi and Zhuangzi at the age of 12. He served King An of Jin (Emperor Jianwen of the Liang dynasty) from the age of 15, and during the Liang dynasty he was active as an emissary to Wei and Northern Qi, and was known for his eloquence and wit. He was also highly valued during the Chen dynasty, and as Deputy Censor-in-Chief he resolved internal disputes within the royal family, and after serving as Right Secretary to the Secretariat and Secretary-in-Chief to the Prince's Junior Tutor, he passed away. As a central figure in the literary circle under Emperor Jianwen, together with his father Xu Chi, Yu Jianwu, and Yu Xin, he composed many elegant and sophisticated poems, which created a trend in the so-called "Gong style" style. By order of Emperor Jianwen, he compiled the "Yutai Xin Ying," a collection of Gong style poems and similar erotic poems from the Han dynasty. He was also a master of elegant and tightly structured tanbu (paired prose), and many of the Chen dynasty's imperial edicts, military books, and summonses were written by him. His style of poetry and prose, along with that of Yu Xin, is called the "Xu Yu style." His surviving works are collected in the "Xu Xiaomu Collection" (6 volumes), with annotations by Wu Zhaoyi of the Qing dynasty.

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Japanese:

[生]天監6(507)
[没]至徳1(583)
中国，六朝時代の梁，陳の文学者，政治家。東海，たん (山東省) の人。字，孝穆 (こうぼく) 。諡は章。幼少から非凡の才を示し，12歳で老荘に通じたという。 15歳から晋安王 (梁の簡文帝 ) に仕え，梁では魏や北斉に使いして弁舌と機知で活躍。陳時代にも重用されて御史中丞として王室の内紛を正し，尚書右僕射，侍中を経て太子少傅に進んで没した。簡文帝の幕下の文学集団の中心人物として，父の徐ちや，庾肩吾 (ゆけんご) ，庾信父子とともに，技巧を凝らした艶麗な詩を多くつくり，いわゆる「宮体」の流行を生み，簡文帝の命によって，その宮体詩および漢以来のそれに類する艶詩を集めた『玉台新詠』を編纂した。また駢文 (べんぶん) でも華麗で緊密な構成をもった名手であり，陳の詔勅，軍書，檄 (げき) などは多く彼の手に成った。その詩文の風は，庾信と並んで「徐庾体」と称される。現存する作品は『徐孝穆集』 (6巻) に収められ，清の呉兆宜の箋注がある。

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