Liǔ Zōngyuán bèi biǎn Yǒngzhōu de shí nián lǐ, xiě le hěnduō guānyú Xiāoxiāng shānshuǐ de shīwén.
In his ten years of exile in Yongzhou, Liu Zongyuan wrote many poems and essays about the landscape of Xiaoxiang.
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The 潇水 joins the 湘江 at Yongzhou in southern Hunan, and poets made the pair a byword for misty, melancholy beauty. Painters from the Song dynasty on returned again and again to the "Eight Views of Xiaoxiang", a theme later copied in Japan and Korea.
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In 红楼梦, 林黛玉 lives in the 潇湘馆 and her poetry-club name is 潇湘妃子, recalling the legendary consorts whose tears spotted the bamboo of the Xiang. The women's web-fiction site 潇湘书院 borrows the name for the same mood.
