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Liu Changqing
Mid-Tang poet, a master of the five-character regulated verse who called himself its Great Wall; he ended as Prefect of Suizhou.
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 Wenfang · Liu of Suizhou · Great Wall of Five-Character Verse
Liu Changqing, courtesy name Wenfang, was a Tang poet whose dates are disputed, roughly 726 to 790. He served as censor, magistrate of Haiyan, commandant of Changzhou and Nanba, and assistant prefect of Muzhou, and finished as Prefect of Suizhou, hence the name Liu of Suizhou. A master of the five-character regulated poem, he styled himself its Great Wall. His collected poems are the Liu Suizhou ji, and eleven of his poems are in the Three Hundred Tang Poems.
Life and times
Dates c. 726 – c. 790 CE (dates disputed)