entity Updated 2026-08-22 Tags: Person, Literature, Song-Dynasty, Poetry, China

李清照 / Li Qingzhao

李清照 / Li Qingzhao appears near the end of Qinji 131-2 as the literary counterweight to the episode’s historical and performance stories. That source says the host liked Li Qingzhao’s lyrics from childhood and notes a statistic attributed to 王仲闻’s annotation: 29 of 57 collected lyrics involve wine.

Qinji 131-3 fills in the branch that the earlier markdown cut off. The episode treats wine as a recurring emotional medium across Li Qingzhao’s life: young leisure and idle sorrow, midlife marital separation and longing, then late grief after widowhood and national crisis.

The source also links Li Qingzhao to Virginia Woolf / 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫’s room-and-money argument, using it to explain why family learning, books, and material stability mattered for a woman writer. But the episode’s admiration is not only sociological; it emphasizes Li Qingzhao’s freedom, candor, and self-possession as part of why her wine lyrics remain vivid.

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