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·十四夜》
已是华灯照绮筵，
渐添奇巧斗新悬。
明月似嫌芳景速，
不轻圆。
佳节最怜前一日，
旧欢长算几何年。
可惜金吾犹禁夜，
促游鞭。
Nantang huan xi sha:
The Night of the Fourteenth
Xu Can
They’ve used decorated lanterns to light up damask seats;
Now wondrous touches are added, new hangings rival one another.
The bright moon seems averse to the lovely sights’ haste,
And doesn’t readily round.
I love best the day before a festival,
Often reckoning how long past happiness did last.
Too bad the capital guards still enforce curfew,
Urging back the roving whips.
