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Niu Qiao
Late Tang and Five Dynasties lyricist of the Huajian school who served Former Shu, traditionally credited with the tale collection Linggai Lu.
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 Songqing · Zi Yanfeng
Niu Qiao, courtesy names Songqing and Yanfeng, from Longxi, was a grandson of the Tang chancellor Niu Sengru; he passed the jinshi examination in 878 and served as a remonstrance official. At the end of the Tang he joined Wang Jian in Shu and became Supervising Secretary of the Former Shu state. More than thirty of his lyrics are included in the Huajian Ji, and the tale collection Linggai Lu, containing the story of Guo Han behind 'a heavenly robe without seams', is traditionally attributed to him.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; jinshi 878 CE, later served Former Shu