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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
- c. 1061 CEBorn
Song - c. 1124 CEDied
Works
Literature · Lyrics1- Sorry to Part · On Its Theme: Tears Like Dew on a FlowerSongMao Pang's short ci of a tearful parting and a broken soul sent home on the tide