Yesterday we said that Wei Dongting is a figure made up out of thin air, and his real prototype is Cao Yin. And the extent to which Cao Yin and the Kangxi Emperor had an iron relationship, we can see through Kangxi's letter to Cao Yin...
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Wu Zhizhen (1640-1717), also spelled Mengju and Orange Zhai, was a native of Zhouquan Town, Shimen County (now Tongxiang City) in the Qing Dynasty, and was a very influential poet in the poetry circle of Zhejiang in the early Qing Dynasty. Author of "Yellow Leaf Village...
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