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Zhu Fang
Mid-Tang recluse poet, courtesy name Changtong, from Xiangyang, who was briefly staff adviser to Li Gao, Prince of Cao, and then retired to Danyang; the Thousand Family Poems includes his Ti Zhulin Si.
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 Courtesy name Changtong · Zhu Su (a variant form in the Thousand Family Poems)
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Zhu Fang, courtesy name Changtong, came from Xiangyang in Xiangzhou, Hubei, and his birth year is unknown. In 782 Li Gao, the hereditary Prince of Cao and governor of Jiangxi, hired him as staff adviser, but he soon returned home and retired to Danyang. In 786 the court summoned him as a Reminder under an edict seeking hidden talents, but he fell ill on the way and went back to Wu without taking office; he died between about 787 and 789. The Complete Tang Poems preserves twenty-five of his poems, and the Thousand Family Poems attributes Ti Zhulin Si to him.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; died c. 787–789 CE; active from 782 to the late 780s CE