Passing through Yangzhou, Jiang Kui wrote 'Yangzhou Slow'.
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history
He never held office and lived as the guest of patrons such as the poet 范成大. Seventeen of his ci survive with his own music written beside the words, almost the only Song ci melodies whose notes are known.
culture
《扬州慢》 (1176) mourns Yangzhou after the Jin raids and recalls the twenty-four bridges of 杜牧. In 1191 he wrote two new tunes on the plum trees in Fan Chengda's garden and named them 《暗香》 and 《疏影》, after the plum-blossom couplet of 林逋.
