Yun Zhu

Yun Zhu (惲珠) or Wanyan Yun Zhu (完顏惲珠) aka Adept of the Lotus Lake (蓉湖散人) (29 July 1771 – 1 June 1833) was a Qing dynasty poet, painter, anthologist and moralist. She gathered together thousands of poems written by hundreds of women. and her great grandfather, Yun Shouping, was a renowned painter.

Her father was a jailer but she married Wanyan Tinglu who was a Manchu aristocrat. They had four children Wanyan Linqing in 1791, Wanyan Linchang in 1792, Wanyan Linshu in 1794 and a daughter the following year. Possibly without her consent Linqing arranged for some to published in 1814. Yun was annoyed as she felt that only poems intended for posterity should be published. Her Drafts poems and Lyrics from Hongxiang Library went to be reprinted in 1866 and 1928. After she died Linqing took her remains to Beijing for burial.