The Edict of Yongxu

Name: The Edict of Yongxu
Author: Fresh Master

咏絮令

by Fresh Master (鲜大人)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 240k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Ancient-Style Life
Updated: 4mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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During the Yonghe era of the Eastern Jin dynasty, Xie Daoyun, a legitimate daughter of the Chen Commandery Xie clan, was born on a snowy night. Born into a distinguished family, she nevertheless set out to break free of the constraint that “a woman's lack of talent is a virtue.” Her line, “It is like willow catkins dancing on the wind,” made her famous south of the Yangtze, and her talent for poetry became a legend through the ages. Yet beneath her renown lay the heavy shackles of the great aristocratic clans. She was forced to marry into the Langya Wang clan and wed Wang Ningzhi, son of the Sage of Calligraphy: she was a proud, talented woman, while he was a mediocre man devoted to Daoism, and their marriage was destined to be fraught with hardship. In an age of turmoil, she lived through the Battle of Feishui and witnessed the rise and fall of the Xie clan. When the Sun En Rebellion swept through Kuaiji and her husband died in battle, she took up a blade to protect her young grandsons and faced death with composure. In her later years, widowed in Kuaiji, she founded the Willow Catkin Studio and taught, leaving students throughout the land and ensuring the literary tradition lived on. “It is like willow catkins dancing on the wind”: as light as willow fluff, yet she shone with the brightest light in an age of chaos.

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