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Zhou Wenju [Chou Wen-chü]
(b Jurong, near modern Nanjing, Jiangsu Province; fl AD 942–61). Chinese painter. He served as a daizhao (painter in attendance) at the Painting Academy of the Southern Tang court (AD 937–75). He may first have become prominent during the reign of the emperor Li Bian (937–43), when it is recorded that he was ordered to paint the Nanzhuang (Southern Village), though Guo Ruoxu dates this event to between 961 and 975. He participated in executing a joint work at the banquet held by the ruler, Li Jing (reg 943–61), on New Year’s day, 947. He was probably dead before the Song (960–1279) conquered the Southern Tang, since he is not recorded among the painters of the Southern Tang entering the Song Painting Academy.
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