Xu Can, also known as Xiangping, Mingxia, and Mingshen, was born in Wu County, Jiangsu Province (now Wuzhong District and Xiangcheng District of Suzhou City). Chen Zhilin succeeded. You Yingwu, a general historian. Chen Zhilin has accompanied him twice during his two migrations. In the tenth year of Kangxi’s reign (1671), he was ordered to return the bones he had collected. In his later years, he studied Buddhism and became known as Zi?. In his early years, he was fond of singing and particularly enjoyed composing poems. She was praised by the poet Chen Weisong as the number one best girl after the Southern Song Dynasty. There are “Poems from Humble Administrator’s Garden” and “Poems from Humble Administrator’s Garden”.
徐灿，字湘蘋，又字明霞、明深，江苏吴县（今苏州市吴中区、相城区）人。陈之遴继配。幼颖悟，通书史。陈之遴两次流徙，均曾随行。康熙十年（1671），奉旨归之遴之骨。晚年学佛，更号紫?。早年雅好吟咏，尤喜为词。被词人陈维崧誉为南宋后闺秀第一。有《拙政园诗馀》《拙政园诗集》。
徐灿·《南唐浣溪沙·十五夜》
暖浅寒轻夜气和，
踏春红袂试纤罗。
月似美人慵欲睡，
晕横波。
懒逐香尘看火树，
自笺新调当笙歌。
半侧流霞三两爵，
不须多。
Nantang huan xi sha:
The Night of the Fifteenth
Xu Can
The warmth is faint, the chill light, the night air mild;
Picking a red dress for my spring jaunt, I try on sheer gauze.
The moon is like a languid beauty about to sleep,
Its halo diffusing waves.
Too idle to follow the fragrant dust or watch the splendid lights,
I write new verses in place of pipes and songs.
Half-leaning toward the flowing clouds, two or three cups
No need for more.
