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Chen Ziliang
Poet of Wu who lived through the Sui-Tang transition, served in the Wude years as chief clerk of the Right Guard of the Heir Apparent and scholar to the Crown Prince Yin, and died in 632; his poems appear in Gu Shi Yuan.
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 Chen, Chief Clerk of the Right Guard of the Heir Apparent
Chen Ziliang came from Wu commandery (modern Suzhou, Jiangsu); his birth year is unknown and he lived through the Sui-Tang transition. During the Wude years of Emperor Gaozu he served as chief clerk of the Right Guard of the Heir Apparent and as a scholar in the household of Crown Prince Li Jiancheng, later styled Prince Yin, and he died in 632. He wrote both verse and prose, with poems preserved in Gu Shi Yuan, and is credited with a commentary on the monk Falin's Bianzheng Lun. His career is only thinly recorded.
Life and times
Dates Birth year unknown; in office during the Wude years; died 632 CE