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Ou Daren was a Ming dynasty

Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

 scholar, a native of Chencun (陳村), Shunde

Shunde

Shunde District is a district of Foshan prefecture-level city in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong Province, southeast China.-Administration:Shunde was a county-level city until December 8, 2002, when it became a district of Foshan prefecture-level city...

 in Guangdong

Guangdong

Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...

 province. Becoming an official with the Second-Degree Scholars (優貢), he was appointed at posts such as Assistant of the Imperial College (國子監助教), Officer in Ministry of Work Affairs in Nanjing (南京工部虞衡郎中), etc. He was famous for his poetry, and was one of "The Latter Five Poets of the Southern Garden

The Latter Five Poets of the Southern Garden

The Latter Five Poets of the Southern Garden was a Ming dynasty poetry circle composed of Liang Youyu , Ou Daren , Li Minbiao , Wu Dan , and Li Shixing . They are generally considered to be the most important Cantonese poets of the sixteenth century....

" (南园后五子), along with Liang Youyu

Liang Youyu

Liang Youyu was a Ming dynasty scholar. A native of Shunde in Guangdong province, he completed the Jinshi level of the Imperial Examination in 1550. He was involved in two well known poetry circles "The Latter Five Poets of the Southern Garden" , and "The Seven Masters"...

, Li Minbiao, Wu Dan and Li Shixing

Li Shixing

Li Shixing ; ca. was a Chinese landscape painter during the Yuan Dynasty .Li was born in Beijing. He specialized in landscapes and ink bamboo paintings.-References:...

. His famous works are the Collected Works of Ou Yubu (歐虞部集) and the Biographies of Virtuous Ancestors of Bai Yue (百越先賢志).

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