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Chao Buzhi
Northern Song ci poet and writer, one of the Four Scholars of Su Shi's circle
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 Chao Wujiu · Wujiu · Guilaizi · Sumen Si Xueshi Zhi Yi
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Chao Buzhi, courtesy name Wujiu and sobriquet Guilaizi, from Juye in Jizhou, was born in 1053. A Northern Song ci poet and writer, he was one of the Four Scholars of Su's circle with Zhang Lei, Huang Tingjian and Qin Guan. He passed the jinshi examination in 1079 and served as instructor at the Imperial University and in posts at Yangzhou, Qizhou, Bozhou and Chuzhou. His works include the Jilei ji and the Chao shi qinqu waipian, and ci such as Dongxian ge and Shuilong yin. He died in 1110.
Life and times
- 1053Born
Song - 1110Died
Works
Literature · Lyrics3- Water Dragon Chant · Why Must Spring Hurry SoSongChao Buzhi's long ci matching a friend's rhymes: spring never ages, only people do
- Remembering Youth · Endless Willows by the Official RoadSongChao Buzhi's short ci on leaving Lixia, opening with things endless, heartless and rootless
- Song of the Cave Immortal · Where the Blue Mist SpreadsSongChao Buzhi's mid-length ci of a Mid-Autumn moon at Sizhou and wine drunk till dawn
- Literature · Prose1
- A Trip to the North Hills of XinchengSongChao Buzhi recalls a night in the hills north of Xincheng: pines, a wary monk, moonlit bamboo
Family tree
- Direct kin
Chao BuzhiYounger paternal cousin