陈亚
宋
Chen Ya was a Northern Song lyricist best known for his medicine-name ci poems. Although relatively little is known about his life, tradition associates him with a strong familiarity with medicinal terms, which he skillfully transformed into poetic language. His surviving work is marked by ingenuity, compact structure, and emotional subtlety. “Medicine-Name Boudoir Longing” is his best-known piece, showing how technical wordplay can still carry genuine tenderness and longing.