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Mao Pang
Northern Song ci poet, courtesy name Zemin and sobriquet Dongtang, from Jiangshan in Quzhou, who served up to prefectural vice-governor; best known for the lyric Xi Fen Fei.
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 Courtesy name Zemin · Dongtang (sobriquet)
Mao Pang, courtesy name Zemin and sobriquet Dongtang, came from Jiangshan in Quzhou and was a Northern Song ci poet. He served as defender of Changshou in Yingzhou, legal officer at Hangzhou, judicial officer in Raozhou, magistrate of Wukang, prefect of Xiuzhou and vice-governor of Zhending. His works are the Dongtang Ji in ten scrolls and the Dongtang Ci, delicate in style; the lyric Xi Fen Fei, a parting piece written at a monastery at Fuyang, is widely recited. His birth is placed around 1060 and his death is uncertain, but he was still living in 1124.
Life and times
Dates c. 1061 CE–c. 1124 CE