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Fei Chang
Liang poet from Jiangxia who excelled at yuefu verse; his Picking Water Chestnuts and Later Lament of the Long Gate Palace are among poems kept in the Jade Terrace anthology.
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 Fei Chang of Jiangxia
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Fei Chang was a Liang-dynasty poet from Jiangxia (around Wuchang in modern Wuhan); his dates are unknown. He was skilled at yuefu and also wrote drum-and-pipe songs. Surviving works include Picking Water Chestnuts, Later Lament of the Long Gate Palace, Gazing at a Beauty in the Spring Meadows, On Looking in the Mirror, and the drum-and-pipe songs Wushan Gao and Youso Si. Many poems survive in the Jade Terrace anthology, mostly on women's feelings and palace laments.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active in the Liang dynasty (502-557 CE)