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Xi Si (Gongzi Xi Si)
Noble minister of the State of Lu (c. 670 BCE–620 BCE), renowned for erudition, author of 'Bi Gong' in the Lu Hymns of the Shijing.
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 Prince Xi Si · Gongzi Xi Si of Lu
Xi Si (c. 670 BCE–620 BCE) was a royal prince and high official of the State of Lu under Duke Xi. Commissioned upon the restoration of the ancestral temple of Jiang Yuan, he composed 'Bi Gong', the grandest ceremonial hymn in the Lu Hymns with explicit self-attribution in its closing lines.
Life and times
Dates c. 670 BCE–620 BCE