瞿佑

瞿佑（1347年—1433年），一作瞿祐，字宗吉，号存斋。元末明初钱塘（今浙江杭州）人。

生平

生于元顺帝至正七年（1347年），早年随父宦游姑苏，侨居乌鹊桥。后因张士诚起兵，瞿父遂举家南归避祸。少有诗名，杨维桢见其作品《香奁八题》，即席侨居乌鹊桥和，俊语叠出，称之为“千里驹”。凌云翰则称为“小友”。

洪武年间，由贡士荐授仁和训导，历任临安、宜阳等县训导，升任国王府右长史。永乐六年（1408年），以诗祸下锦衣卫狱。永乐十三年（1415年）谪戍保安（今河北怀柔一带）。

洪熙元年（1425年），英国公张辅奏请赦还，在英国公家主持家塾三年。宣德三年（1429年）南归钱塘。宣德八年（1433年）以疾卒，年八十七。

著作

瞿佑才高学博，惜作品多散佚。著有《剪灯新话》、《田园诗话》、《咏物诗》等。明抄本《天机余锦》收录有瞿佑词145首。《宣和牌谱》长久被误会为瞿佑所作，但其实是伪托之书。

Qu You (Chinese: 瞿佑; pinyin: Qú Yòu; Wade–Giles: Ch'ü Yu, 1341–1427), courtesy name Zongji (宗吉) and self-nicknamed Cunzhai (存齋, "Reading Studio of Existence"), was a Chinese novelist who lived in the Ming dynasty, and whose works inspired a new genre fantasy works with political subtext of the Qing dynasty.

Born in Qiantang (錢塘, now Hangzhou), Qu You was famous as an adolescent poet. He became a teacher-official (教諭) in Lin'an (臨安), then promoted to be the Head of Secretary (長史) of the Zhou (周) Kingdom. But at the height of his career, he became implicated in a dispute between the Hongwu Emperor and Zhu Su and was jailed in 1408.

After his release in 1425, he worked as a tutor in the household of Lord of Ying State (英國公). He was reinstated as an official, but he resigned shortly, never returning to the world of politics again, in action. His works, though entertaining, have undertone that expresses concerns and discontent that he had with the Zhu family and politics of the Ming dynasty.

Works

Records by the Trimmed Lamp (剪燈錄, Jiandeng Lu): 40 volumes

New Stories to Trim the Lamp By (剪燈新話, Jiandeng Xinhua): 4 volumes