1. Yun Zhu or Wanglan Yun Zhu aka Adept of the Lotus Lake was a Qing dynasty poet, painter, anthologist and moralist.
14 Facts About Yun Zhu
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Yun Zhu gathered together thousands of poems written by hundreds of women.
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Yun Zhu was born in 1771 into an artistic family in Yanghu in Changzhou.
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Yun Zhu's father was a jailer but she married Wanglan Tinglu who was a Manchu aristocrat.
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Yun Zhu was annoyed as she felt that only poems intended for posterity should be published.
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Yun Zhu restarted her life at the age of 50 following the death of her husband in 1820, the year before.
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Yun Zhu took a pen name of Adept of the Lotus Lake.
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Yun Zhu went to live with her son and this meant that we know of her life from his autobiography.
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Yun Zhu was an expert in water conservation in Anhui province.
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Yun Zhu's pre-eminent work was a book of poetry called Women's Poetry: anthology for a Correct Beginning.
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Yun Zhu was able to travel widely as accompanied her father on his business trips.
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Yun Zhu was known as "Dame dowager of the first rank" and had been given other honours by the Imperial court.
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Yun Zhu taught three sons and fourteen grandchildren before she died in 1833.
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Yun Zhu died without her favourite son ashehadbeen ordered by the emperor to become the Governor of Guizhou.