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Niu Xiji
Former Shu ci poet who rose from court diarist to Hanlin academician and censor, later served the Later Tang; his lyrics appear in the Huajian Ji.
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 Censor Niu
Niu Xiji was a ci poet of the Former Shu, born around 872. He served as a court diarist, then under Wang Yan as Hanlin academician and Vice Censor-in-Chief; after the Shu fell the Later Tang made him deputy military governor of Yongzhou. Fourteen of his lyrics survive, mostly in the Huajian Ji, and his collected writings were known as the Collected Works of Censor Niu.
Life and times
Dates born c. 872 CE; death year unknown