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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
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- 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
- UnknownBorn
Northern and Southernactive in the Liang dynasty (502-557 CE) - UnknownDied
Works
Literature · Poetry11- Hearing Cloth Pounded Beyond the Walls at Night, from the Huaguan OfficeNorthern and SouthernOn night duty, Fei Chang hears fulling blocks beyond the walls and pictures noble women at work
- Matching Secretary Xiao's 'Longing on a Spring Morning'Northern and SouthernFei Chang answers a friend's spring poem of longing: willows everywhere, the beloved far away
- Gazing at a Beauty in the Spring FieldsNorthern and SouthernFei Chang's girl in the spring fields, dazzling in her finery, who answers like chaste Luofu
- On Looking in the Mirror · Dawn Light on the Apricot BeamsNorthern and SouthernFei Chang's beauty at her morning mirror, fussing over brows, powder and city fashion
- Sunny Spring Sends Forth Its Mild AirNorthern and SouthernFei Chang's painted-screen spring: sunlit gates, silkworm girls, roaming boys, a guest kept
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- On an Autumn Night the Cool Wind RisesNorthern and SouthernFei Chang's painted-screen autumn night: a wife at home and a soldier on the frontier weep
- Gathering Water Caltrops · My Home by the Five LakesNorthern and SouthernFei Chang's caltrop gatherer of the Five Lakes, lovely unpainted, longing in vain at dusk
- The Empress's Lament at Changmen PalaceNorthern and SouthernFei Chang voices the spurned Empress Chen at dusk, remembering the golden house of her youth
- Mount Wu Is High · Light Fading on the MountainNorthern and SouthernFei Chang's goddess of Mount Wu, ready to give up her pendant and follow the king home
- There Is One I Long For · Crows Settling in Shanglin ParkNorthern and SouthernFei Chang's waiting woman, who takes a stirring blind and thunder for her lord
- The Fragrant Tree · Fanned by the Evening WindNorthern and SouthernFei Chang's flowering tree, smiling in bloom, and a young wife calling the traveller home