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Zhang Zhengjian
Chen dynasty poet styled Jianze who placed high in the 547 examination, a master of five-character verse, with a surviving collection.
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 Jianze
Zhang Zhengjian, courtesy name Jianze, was a poet of the Liang-Chen transition. He placed highly in the examination of 547 and served as attendant to the Prince of Shaoling, then as gentleman cavalier attendant and magistrate of Pengze. Under the Chen he held posts in the households of the Prince of Poyang and the Prince of Hengyang and again as cavalier attendant, and died in the Taijian era aged 49. He wrote mainly five-character verse; a Ming collection, Zhang Sanqi Ji, survives.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; sat the 547 examination and died in the Taijian era (569-582)