Ju Chao (; 1811–1865), a native of

Panyu Panyu, alternately romanized as Punyu, is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, China. It was a separate county-level city before its incorporation into modern Guangzhou in 200 ...

(番禺), now

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, was a famed Chinese painter in the

Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

. His

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was Meisheng (梅生), and

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Meichao (梅巢) or Guquan. He was the older brother (or cousin) of the painter

Ju Lian Ju Lian (; 1828–1904), a native of Panyu (番禺, now Guangzhou, was a Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty. His courtesy name was 'Ancient Spring' (Gu Quan 古泉), and self-given pseudonym 'Old Man of the Divided Mountain' (Ge Shan Lao Ren 隔山� ...

.Cihai: Page 1073 under Ju Lian's entry. He wrote "Poems of Shouxie Shi" (首邪室诗) and "Yanyu Ci" (烟语词).

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* Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (辞海编辑委员会). Ci hai (辞海). Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she (上海辞书出版社), 1979. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ju, Chao Qing dynasty painters 1811 births 1899 deaths People from Panyu District Artists from Guangzhou Qing dynasty poets Writers from Guangzhou Poets from Guangdong Painters from Guangdong 19th-century Chinese poets 19th-century Chinese painters