王徽之

Wáng Huīzhī (字 Zǐyóu 子猷, d. 386) was the son of the calligrapher Wáng Xīzhī 王羲之 and an Eastern Jìn aesthete famed for his eccentric devotion to bamboo. The Shìshuō xīnyǔ preserves the anecdote in which, on briefly residing in another’s house, he insisted that bamboo be planted, declaring “[One] cannot for a moment be without this lord” (hé kě yī rì wú cǐ jūn yé 何可一日無此君耶) — the literary tag from which 義銛 Yìxiān’s Bù-kě chà-nà wú cǐ jūn (KR6d0238) borrows its title.