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Chao Chongzhi
Late Northern Song poet and lyricist styled Shuyong from Juye, younger cousin of Chao Buzhi and father of Chao Gongwu.
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 Shuyong · Yongdao
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Chao Chongzhi, courtesy name Shuyong or Yongdao, came from Juye and was a late Northern Song poet and lyricist, a younger cousin of Chao Buzhi and father of the Southern Song scholar Chao Gongwu. His ten-juan Juci Ji survives; the one-juan Chao Shuyong Ci is lost but was reconstructed by Zhao Wanli. Three Hundred Song Lyrics includes one lyric of his to the tune Linjiang Xian.
Life and times
- UnknownBorn
Songlived in the late Northern Song - UnknownDied
Works
Literature · Lyrics1- Immortal by the River · Drinking by the West PoolSongChao Chongzhi's mid-length ci of old revels at the West Pool and a friend who no longer writes
Family tree
- Direct kin
Chao ChongzhiElder paternal cousin