Zhu Shuzhen 朱淑真
poet · Song China · c. 12th century
A woman poet of the Song. After she died her parents burned her manuscripts; what was left was gathered under the title Heartbreak Collection.
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12th century
For a woman to play with writing is truly a fault. How much worse to sing of the moon and chant to the wind. Wear a hole through an iron inkstone, and what have you achieved? Break gold needles at your embroidery: that is what counts as merit.
女子弄文誠可罪，那堪詠月更吟風。
磨穿鐵硯成何事，繡折金鍼卻有功。"Reproaching Myself," the first poem, in the Complete Song Poems
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