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Moqi Yong
Late Northern Song ci poet and musician, courtesy name Yayan, composer at the Dasheng Music Bureau who wrote original tunes such as Chun Cao Bi and San Tai; his Dasheng Ji collected his work.
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 Yayan · Ci Yin (sobriquet)
Moqi Yong, with the compound surname Moqi, courtesy name Yayan and sobriquet Ci Yin (Hidden in Verse), was a late Northern Song ci poet and musician; his dates are unknown. Around 1104, in the Chongning years, he became composer at the Dasheng Music Bureau, setting words to the monthly modes (one account places this at the start of Zhenghe). After the fall of the Northern Song he drifted to Hangzhou. Huang Tingjian called him a poet of his age and the Huaan Cixuan praised him as a saint of the ci. His Dasheng Ji, five scrolls with a preface by Zhou Bangyan, is lost; Zhao Wanli's reconstruction preserves twenty-seven ci, including the original tunes Chun Cao Bi and San Tai.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; c. 1104 CE appointed composer at the Dasheng Music Bureau, drifted to Hangzhou after the Northern Song fell