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Feng Yansi
Southern Tang ci poet who was twice chancellor and wrote the Yangchun ji
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 Feng Zhengzhong · Zhengzhong
Feng Yansi, whose given name was first written with a different second character, courtesy name Zhengzhong, from Guangling, was born in 903, a ci poet of the Southern Tang. He served Li Bian, Emperor Liezu, and Li Jing, Emperor Yuanzong, was chancellor in 946 and again in 952, left the post in 958 and died in 960 with the posthumous name Zhongsu. His collection is the Yangchun ji. The Qing critic Liu Xizai wrote that Yan Shu took up the grace of his ci and Ouyang Xiu their depth. The histories mostly write his name Feng Yanji.
Life and times
Dates 903 - 960