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Ye Qingchen
Northern Song minister from Changzhou, second-ranked jinshi of 1024, Hanlin Academician and Finance Commissioner, known for the rhapsody Yunrui Ji Guan Fu and for his inscriptions at Tianzhu and Yandang.
In a riverside storehouse, sacks of grain and white salt blocks are stacked high; workers weigh grain in a basket hung from a large steelyard, others carry sacks along a plank onto a barge at the right, and a clerk sits at an abacus beside bundled tally sticks.
Also known as Dao Qing · Ben Yuan
Ye Qingchen, courtesy name Daoqing and styled Benyuan, was from Changzhou in Suzhou, son of Ye Can, and was born in 1000. He passed the jinshi in 1024, taking second place with the rhapsody Yunrui Ji Guan Fu, and served as Assistant Transport Commissioner of Liangzhe, Hanlin Academician and Finance Commissioner. In 1039 he left inscriptions at the Lower Tianzhu Temple near Hangzhou and at Lingfeng Xuedong on Yandang Mountain. He also wrote ci, and his Hesheng Chao, a farewell lyric, is much recited. He died in 1049.
Life and times
Dates 1000 CE–1049 CE