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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.
TangAfter a time Yuan Jie became prefect of Daozhou. He asked that the people's arrears of tax and the goods bought for the levy office, 130,000 strings in all, be remitted; he built houses and gave land and corvée exemption to the people, and over ten thousand exiles returned. He was then advanced to commissioner of Rongguan, personally instructed the tribal chiefs, and brought eight prefectures to peace.
Yuan Jie lived in his youth on Mount Shangyu and wrote the Yuanzi in ten pieces, from which he took the name Yuanzi. In the twelfth year of Tianbao he sat the jinshi examination and, on reading his writing, the vice minister of rites Yang Jun placed him in the upper rank; he later submitted three essays, Shiyi, and wrote the Zishi.