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Chang Jing
Northern Wei official and writer from Henei who rose to director of the Palace Library and wrote the Four Sages encomia.
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 Yongchang
Chang Jing, courtesy name Yongchang, came from Henei and served the Northern Wei. A bright child, he rose from erudite of law to secretary in the chancellery and erudite of ceremonies, helped revise the legal code in the Zhengshi era, and compiled forty fascicles of imperial edicts. He was inspector of Xuzhou in early Xiaochang, general of the Central Army and palace attendant in Yongan, and director of the Palace Library in Putai, with a title as Viscount of Puyang. He wrote the Four Sages encomia on Sima Xiangru, Wang Bao, Yan Junping and Yang Xiong, revised Zhang Hua's Bowu Zhi, and died in 550 under the Eastern Wei.
Life and times
Dates Birth year unknown; died in 550 CE