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Wu Lizhi
Southern Song ci poet from Qiantang, courtesy name Zihe and sobriquet Old Man Shunshou, whose five-scroll ci collection was prefaced by Zheng Fuguo; his Xi Qian Ying on the intercalary Lantern Festival is anthologized.
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 Zihe · Old Man Shunshou
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Wu Lizhi, courtesy name Zihe and sobriquet Old Man Shunshou, came from Qiantang (modern Hangzhou) and was a Southern Song ci poet; his dates are unknown. Wikisource records that he left five scrolls of ci with a preface by Zheng Fuguo, and includes his Xi Qian Ying on the intercalary Lantern Festival. The Bai Xiang Ci Pu selects one of his Xi Qian Ying lyrics.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; lived in the Southern Song