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Huangfu Song
Late Tang ci poet, son of the essayist Huangfu Shi, courtesy name Ziqi and sobriquet Tanluanzi, from Xin'an in Muzhou; eleven of his ci are in the Huajian ji, among them the Cailianzi and Meng Jiangnan.
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Zi Ziqi · Hao Tanluanzi · Wantang Ciren
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Huangfu Song, courtesy name Ziqi and self-styled Tanluanzi, of Xin'an in Muzhou, was a late Tang ci poet and the son of the prose writer Huangfu Shi. Neither his dates nor his career are recorded; since his father died around 835, his main activity probably fell in the mid-ninth century. Zhao Chongzuo's Huajian ji, compiled in Later Shu, includes eleven of his ci, and the Quan Tangshi preserves eighteen poems and lyrics, admired for short, limpid pieces such as Cailianzi, Meng Jiangnan and Langtaosha; he also wrote the Zuixiang riyue.
Life and times
- UnknownBorn
Tanglate Tang, son of Huangfu Shi (active c. 830–880) - UnknownDied
Works
Literature · Lyrics12- Willow Branch Song · Spring Enters the Travelling PalaceTangHuangfu Song's lyric on a travelling palace's willows, Xuanzong's glory set against ruin
- Willow Branch Song · When Spring in Full Bloom Returns to the Land of WatersTangHuangfu Song's lyric on spring willows at the old Wu palace, mourning the past through Xi Shi
- Picked Fresh · Pour a CupTangHuangfu Song's short lyric urging friends to feast while they can, warned by fallen blossoms
- Picked Fresh · Picked FreshTangHuangfu Song's second lyric to the tune, counting life's few feasts and urging joy in them
- Dreaming of the South · The Orchid Wick Burns DownTangHuangfu Song's lyric of a late-night dream of the south, a scene of rain, boats and flute music
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- Dreaming of the South · Asleep UpstairsTangHuangfu Song's lyric of a dream of old days in Moling, its bright spring city lined with regret
- Lotus-Picking Song · Fragrant Lotus over Ten Qing of PondTangHuangfu Song's lyric of a lotus girl too busy at play, her innocence caught in one gesture
- Lotus-Picking Song · The Boat Moves on the Bright Autumn LakeTangHuangfu Song's lyric of a lotus girl who steals a look at a young man, then blushes
- The Heavenly Immortal · Over the Clear Fields a Single Egret FliesTangHuangfu Song's short ci on the Liu Chen legend: parting from an immortal by a jade-green river
- The Heavenly Immortal · Azaleas Bloom, Their Red upon the WaterTangHuangfu Song's short ci of a traveller home after a year to find his immortal estranged
- Waves Washing the Sand · Fine Grass at the RapidsTangA short ci credited to Huangfu Song in Among the Flowers, of fierce waves reshaping the shore
- Waves Washing the Sand · Southern Songs of CardamomTangA short ci credited to Huangfu Song in Among the Flowers: a northerner saddened by river songs