There are also statues of twelve prominent Chinese poets (including Qu Yuan, Tao Qian, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Su Shi, Li Qingzhao, Lu You) on display.
After several promotions and demotions, Lu You retired in 1190 to live in seclusion in his hometown Shaoxing (紹興), then a rural area.
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Watson compares a second body of work, poems on country life and growing old, to those of Bai Juyi (白居易) and Tao Qian (陶潛).
Lu You (陸游), 1125–1210, poet and literati of the Southern Song period