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Zhao Lingzhi
Song imperial clansman and lyricist, a protege of Su Shi, author of the Shangdiao Die lian hua cycle and the miscellany Houqing lu.
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 Delin · Style name Liaofu Weng
Zhao Lingzhi, first styled Jingkuang and later Delin, with the style name Liaofu Weng, was a Northern Song imperial clansman (1064–1134). In the Yuanyou era he served in Yingzhou and kept company with Su Shi; in the Chongning era he was dismissed for being listed in the Yuanyou faction. After the Song moved south he rose to Grand General of the Right Guard and Defence Commissioner of Rongzhou, and inherited the title Prince of Anding. He wrote the notebook Houqing lu in eight scrolls, a Liaofu ji, and the drum-lyric cycle Shangdiao Die lian hua.
Life and times
Dates 1064 CE–1134 CE