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Pan Fang
Southern Song poet born Gongyun, styled Tingjian and called Ziyan, who rose to assistant prefect of Tanzhou and died at 43.
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 Tingjian · Ziyan · Gongyun (original name)
Pan Fang, born Gongyun and styled Tingjian, called Ziyan, was a Southern Song poet. He was appointed judicial official at Zhennan Army and at Quzhou but never took up either, then handled tea and salt administration in Zhexi, served as instructor at the Imperial Academy, and rose to assistant prefect of Tanzhou. He died in 1246, aged 43. His one-juan Ziyan Ji survives, and Three Hundred Song Lyrics includes his lyric to the tune Nanxiangzi.
Life and times
Dates 1204 CE-1246 CE