Jin Yi (poet)
Jin Yi (1770–1794) 金逸 was a Qing dynasty poet from Suzhou.[1] A student of Yuan Mei, 108 of her poems were included in his anthology of works by his female students, the Suiyuan nu dizi shixuan.[2] In his eulogy of Jin Yi, Yuan Mei wrote: “At a very early age she could already read books and distinguish the four tones. She loved to compose poetry, and every time she let fall her brush it was like a fleet horse prancing along unable to talk.” [3][4]
Her poetic skills are said to have greatly pleased her husband on their wedding night; her "poetic companionship" was an important aspect of their marriage.[5] On her deathbed, she wrote a poem on the novel Dream of the Red Chamber.[6]
Some of her poetry has been translated into English.[7][8]
References
- ↑ Ming Qing Women Writers' Database
- ↑ Shang Wei, "The Literati Era and Its Demise" in The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, edited by Steven Owen and Kang-i Sun Chang. Cambridge, 2010, pp.263-64.
- ↑ Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism,’’ edited by Kang-I Sun Chang and Haun Saussy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999, pp. 485-87
- ↑ Hu Wenkai 胡文楷, Lidai funü zhuzuo kao 歴代婦女箸作考, SHanghai, 1985, pp.407, 433-34.
- ↑ Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism, edited by Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999, p.485.
- ↑ Ellen Widmer The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China’’ Cambridge, Mass,: Harvard East Asia Center, 2006, pp.141-42.
- ↑ Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism,’’ edited by Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy.ref>Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999, pp. 485-87
- ↑ The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteeth-Century China’’ Cambridge, Mass,: Harvard East Asia Center, 2006, pp.141-42.
External links
Chinese texts of some of Jin Yi’s poems may be found at Ming Qing Women Writers' Database