Shen Yue
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| Traditional Chinese | 沈約 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 沈约 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Shěn Yuē |
| Wade–Giles | Shen3 Yüeh1 |
| IPA | [ʂə̀n ɥé] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Sám Yeuk |
| Jyutping | Sam2 Joek3 |
| Southern Min | |
| Tâi-lô | Sím Iok |
Shen Yue (traditional Chinese: 沈約; simplified Chinese: 沈约; 441–513), courtesy name Xiuwen (休文), was a poet, statesman, and historian born in Huzhou, Zhejiang. He served emperors under the Liu Song Dynasty, the Southern Qi Dynasty, and the Liang Dynasty.
He was a prominent scholar of the Liang Dynasty and the author of the Book of Song, an historical work covering the history of the previous Liu Song Dynasty. He is probably best known as the originator of the first deliberately applied rules of tonal euphony (so called "four tones and eight defects" 四聲八病) in the history of Chinese prosody. He was also the leading scholar on the musical practices of his time and author of the essays on qilin and omenology.
Shen Yue was known for his love of poetry. For example, he wrote a set of poems, called by Burton Watson the Six Poems on Remembering, describing his beloved during six times of the day. The Six Poems on Remembering get fairly close to being specifically erotic, which is rather unusual for Classical Chinese verse (at least as it has been handed down). The verse on remembering her when she sleeps includes the lines:
Shen Yue was one of the most import writers in terms of contributing to the ideas behind much of later Classical Chinese poetry.
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