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Shu Dan
Northern Song official and ci poet, courtesy name Xindao, rising to Vice Censor-in-Chief and best known as an accuser of Su Shi in the Crow Terrace case; his short lyrics are polished and are collected as Shu Xueshi Ci.
At dawn in a palace courtyard, a large drum hangs in a small roofed frame beside a red pillar, with a bound bundle of scrolls on a low stand in front; a stone balustrade leads toward a large hall in the mist, and a row of tiny people stands far away.
Also known as Xindao · Lantang
Shu Dan, courtesy name Xindao and literary name Lantang, from Cixi in Mingzhou, was a Northern Song official and ci poet. He served as county lieutenant of Linhai, registrar of the Shenguan Academy and Drafter of Edicts, rising to Vice Censor-in-Chief and dying as Academician Awaiting Orders of the Longtu Pavilion. In the Crow Terrace poetry case of the Yuanfeng years he submitted memorials impeaching Su Shi. He excelled at short lyrics in a polished style, and his Yu Meiren is in the Three Hundred Song Lyrics; Zhao Wanli compiled them as the Shu Xueshi Ci.
Life and times
Dates 1041–1103 CE