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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
Dates Dates unknown; lived in the late Northern Song