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calligraphy] is excellent. Therefore by daring to Garden of Solitary Pleasure built in 1073. By he admires. He relates the Reading Hall
take them out and join them together, I can that time [Sima Guang], the conservative [Dushu Tang] to the Western Han Confucian
preserve this beautiful story of [a] singular leader of the Confucian political revival, had scholar [Dong Zongshu, 179-93 -C.], who
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reunion. left his high office and retired to [Luoyang] in became so engrossed in his studies he never
... recorded... two days before New Year's opposition to the new reforms brutully looked out on his garden for three years. The
Eve in the [jiashen] year of the [Chongzhen] enforced under the sponsorship of Wang Pavilion for Playing with Water [Longshui
era [1644]. [Anshi]. His essay opens with historical refer- Xian] is identified with the late [Tang] poet and
ences to the meaning of happiness and then statesman [Du] Mu (803-852) who washed his
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continues with a description of the garden's inkstone in the water next to his study pavilion.
The subject of [Qiu] Ying's painting and the topography. [Yan Guang], the childhood friend of the East-
calligraphy following it by Wen [Zhengming] is ern Han emperor [Guangwu], is the subject of
the essay with poems of the great Northern In the poems following the essay, [Sima Guang] the third poem, on the Hut of the Angling
[Song] statesman and historian [Sima Guang, associates each of the seven divisions in the Fisherman [Diaoyu An]. When the emperor
1019-1086], in which he memorializes his garden with a specific historical figure whom took power in A.D. 25, [Yan Guang] refused his

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