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Cao Pi
Eastern Jin writer, courtesy name Fuzuo, who rose to Governor of Xiapi and Minister of the Household; his fifteen-scroll collection is lost, and his poem Listening to Fulling at Night survives. The name is also written with a variant character.
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 Fuzuo · Cao Pi (variant spelling)
Cao Pi (also written with a variant character), courtesy name Fuzuo, was an Eastern Jin writer. He served as Gentleman, Assistant Imperial Historian, magistrate of Juzhang, Erudite of the Imperial Academy, Secretary of the Masters of Writing, adviser to the General of the Garrison and Governor of Xiapi, ending as Minister of the Household. His Collected Works in fifteen scrolls, a family history and a commentary on the Analects are lost; his poem Listening to Fulling at Night is in the Yutai Xinyong and others are in the Gushi Yuan.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; an Eastern Jin writer