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Zhao Changqing
Southern Song lyricist of the imperial clan from Nanfeng in Jiangxi, sobriquet Xianyuan Jushi, whose ten-fascicle Xixiang Yuefu survives with over three hundred lyrics.
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 Hao Xianyuan Jushi
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Zhao Changqing, sobriquet Xianyuan Jushi, came from Nanfeng in Jiangxi and belonged to the Song imperial clan; he was a lyricist of the Southern Song whose dates are unknown but who was still alive around the end of the Jiading era. His ten-fascicle collection Xixiang Yuefu was printed by Mao Jin in the Song Liushi Mingjia Ci, and the Quan Song Ci contains 339 of his lyrics, a large number for a Southern Song poet. The Baixiang Cipu includes one of his lyrics.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; Southern Song poet, still alive around the end of the Jiading era (c. 1224 CE)