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Yuan Jie
High to mid-Tang poet styled Cishan and called Manlang, who compiled the Qiezhong Ji and wrote 'Song of Chongling'.
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 Cishan · Manlang · Yiganzi
Yuan Jie, courtesy name Cishan, styled Manlang and Yiganzi, was a Tang poet and official who served as army counsellor, censor, prefect of Daozhou and commissioner of Rongguan, and was posthumously made vice-minister of rites. He compiled the anthology Qiezhong Ji, and Du Fu admired his 'Song of Chongling'. His Eulogy on the Tang Restoration, written out by Yan Zhenqing and carved in stone, is his best-known piece. He died in 772.
Life and times
Dates c. 719 or 723 CE-772 CE