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Mao Xiang was a literatus of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Public information about him is limited, and many details of his life cannot be reliably verified. Judging from the works collected here, his writings touch on classical literature, cultural essays, and notes on tea, and are commonly classified under Eastern philosophy, classics, literature, classical literature, and culture. His representative works include Reminiscences of the Plum Shadow Hermitage and Huichao on Jie Tea, and he also appears in collections such as Six Records of a Floating Life and the Traditional Classics Leisure Reading Series. His prose often recalls past events, comments on figures, and records the refined pleasures of daily life; its tone is clear, gentle, and delicate, and it possesses both historical and literary value. Reminiscences of the Plum Shadow Hermitage in particular has been widely read by later generations and has had a lasting influence on the memoir-style writing known as yiyu.