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Zhou Zizhi
Poet and critic of the Northern-to-Southern Song transition from Xuancheng, a graduate of 1142, author of Taicang Timi Ji and Zhupo Shihua.
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 Shaoyin · Hao Zhupo Jushi
Zhou Zizhi, courtesy name Shaoyin and sobriquet Zhupo Jushi, came from Xuancheng, Anhui, and was born in 1082. He ranked third in the palace examination of 1142, served as compiler in the Bureau of Military Affairs and in the Veritable Records Office, and in 1151 was sent out as prefect of Xingguo Army, where he governed with a light hand. Poor and often ill in old age, he retired to Mount Lu and died in 1155. His works include Taicang Timi Ji, the poetry talks Zhupo Shihua and the lyrics Zhupo Ci; the Songci Sanbaishou selects two of his lyrics.
Life and times
- 1082 CEBorn
Song - 1155 CEDied
Works
Literature · Lyrics2- Partridge Sky · A Lamp Burning LowSongZhou Zizhi's short ci of an autumn night of rain, remembering songs once sung together
- Treading the Grass · Love Like Drifting GossamerSongZhou Zizhi's short ci of a parting by a willow stream and a night too sad to get through