Tan Yuanshun

A Chinese poet from the late Ming Dynasty. His pen name was Youxia. He was from Jingling (Hubei Province). Together with his elder brother Zhong Xing, they advocated the idea of ​​deep and solitary life, and completely wiped out the power of the restorationists. They were called the Jingling School after their hometown, and their ideas were all the rage in the poetry world for a time in the late Ming Dynasty. However, their poetry, which showed a strong attachment to self-loved escapism and feminine sentimentality, was uneducated and eccentric, rarely used historical stories, and lacked power and energy, and their influence was quickly lost with the appearance of Qian Qianyi. However, he wrote some excellent short prose pieces. His work includes the Tan Youxia Collection. His biography is recorded in Chapter 4 of the Ming History's Wenyuan.

[Masakazu Fukumoto]

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中国、明(みん)末の詩人。字(あざな)は友夏(ゆうか)。竟陵(きょうりょう)（湖北省）の人。同郷の先輩鍾惺(しょうせい)とともに幽深孤峭(ゆうしんこしょう)を唱え、復古派の勢力を完全に一掃した。彼らは出身地にちなんで竟陵派とよばれ、明末の一時期、その主張は詩壇を風靡(ふうび)したが、自愛的な逃避、女性的な感傷に強い執着を示すその詩文は、無学偏奇で、故事をほとんど用いず、迫力とエネルギーを欠き、銭謙益(せんけんえき)の登場によってその声威はたちまち失墜した。散文の小品にかえって佳作がある。著に『譚友夏合集(がっしゅう)』がある。伝は『明史』文苑(ぶんえん)伝四に記される。

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