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Cui Tu
Late-Tang poet who passed the jinshi in 888; his verse often speaks of travel and homesickness, and one fascicle of it survives in the Quan Tang Shi.
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 Zi Lishan
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Cui Tu, courtesy name Lishan, came from Fuchun (modern Fuyang, Hangzhou) and was born around 854. He passed the jinshi in 888, in the year Zheng Yiju presided. A long-time wanderer, he wrote mostly of travel and longing, and one fascicle of his poems is preserved in the Quan Tang Shi; his poems are also selected in the Tangshi Sanbaishou and the Qianjia Shi.
Life and times
Dates Born c. 854; passed the jinshi in 888; death year unknown