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Yang Pu
Early Northern Song recluse poet from Xinzheng in Zhengzhou, styled the Eastern-Wilds Survivor, who rode an ox about Guodian and was known among officials for his poems; in Zhenzong's reign envoys brought him tea and silk.
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 Qixuan (written Qiyuan in later texts) · Style name Eastern-Wilds Survivor (also given as Eastern-Village Survivor) · Yang Pu (as written in the Songshi)
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Yang Pu, written Yang Pu with a different character in the Songshi, courtesy name Qixuan and styled the Eastern-Wilds Survivor, came from Xinzheng in Zhengzhou, Henan. A fine poet whose verses were recited by officials, he often rode an ox about Guodian, and he spent several years in the remote parts of Mount Song, composing over a hundred poems. After being summoned back he wrote the Gui Geng Fu to state his wish to return to the plough. When the court's tomb-visiting parties passed through Zhengzhou in Zhenzong's reign, envoys gave him tea and cloth. He lived to seventy-eight, and the Thousand Family Poems includes one poem by him.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; lived to seventy-eight; active in the reign of Emperor Zhenzong (997–1022 CE)