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Pei Di
High Tang landscape poet from Guanzhong, close friend of Wang Wei, with whom he lived in seclusion at Wangchuan for over a decade exchanging poems, and who later served as prefect of Shuzhou and a secretary in the Department of State Affairs.
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 Pei, Prefect of Shuzhou
Pei Di, a man of Guanzhong born around 716, whose death year is unknown, was a High Tang poet of landscape and pastoral verse. He was close to Wang Wei, and the two lived in seclusion at Wangchuan for more than ten years, exchanging poems; Wang Wei's Zhuo Jiu Yu Pei Di and Zeng Pei Di were addressed to him. He later served as prefect of Shuzhou and as a secretary in the Department of State Affairs. His quiet, natural verse appears in the Wangchuan Collection, and the Three Hundred Tang Poems includes his Song Cui Jiu.
Life and times
Dates Born c. 716 CE; death year unknown