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Li She
Mid-Tang poet who styled himself Qingxizi, lived in seclusion on Mount Lu with his brother Li Bo in youth, and was later demoted to Xiazhou; his Ti Helin Si Sengshe is his best-known poem.
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 Style name Qingxizi
Li She styled himself Qingxizi and came from Luoyang; his dates are unknown. In youth he lived in seclusion at the White Deer Grotto on Mount Lu with his brother Li Bo, and in the Yuanhe years he was hired as a staff officer by Liu Changyi, military governor of Chenxu. In 811 he was impeached over his dealings with eunuchs and demoted to Registrar of Xiazhou; he was pardoned in 823, later became Erudite of the Imperial Sacrifices, and in 825 was caught up in a plot case and exiled to Kangzhou. His Ti Helin Si Sengshe, with its line about stealing half a day's leisure from a floating life, is widely known and is in the Thousand Family Poems.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active from 811 to 825 CE