Song Ruoxun
Tang dynasty person CBDB = 93346
About Song Ruoxun
Song Ruoxun was a Chinese.
Song Ruoxun was a Chinese Confucian scholar and poet. She was one of five sisters, who all became employed as official poets at the Imperial court: Song Ruoshen (; 768–820), Song Ruozhao, Song Ruoxian, Song Ruolun and Song Ruoxun .
She was the daughter of the scholar Song Tingfen in Hebei and was given advanced education by her father. In 788, she and her sisters were all taken to court to be tested about their knowledge within Confucianism, History and the Classics. They excelled and each were given an office at court. They were employed as official court poets, performing their poetry at court festivities. Song and her sisters were highly respected at court, referred to by the emperor as teacher-scholars and never treated as concubines.
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Tang dynasty person CBDB = 93346
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