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Chao Shuozhi
Late Northern Song scholar and poet, courtesy name Yidao, who took the jinshi in 1082, served as Secretariat Drafter during the Jingkang crisis, and after the crossing south was called as Lecturer; author of the Songshan Wenji.
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 Yidao · Style name Jingyusheng
Chao Shuozhi (1059–1129), courtesy name Yidao, was from Juye in Jizhou (modern Juye, Shandong). He took the jinshi in 1082, became magistrate of Wuji in Dingzhou in 1103, and served as Secretariat Drafter during the Jingkang years. After the Song court moved south, Emperor Gaozong called him as Lecturer and gave him the sinecure of the Dongxiao Temple at Hangzhou; he died in 1129. Learned and a capable poet and prose writer, he left the Songshan Wenji, and the Thousand Family Poems includes a poem by him.
Life and times
Dates 1059–1129 CE