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Ding Xianzhi
High Tang poet from Qu'a in Runzhou, a jinshi of 725 who served as Yuhang county commandant; fourteen of his poems survive.
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 Yuanzhen
Ding Xianzhi, courtesy name Yuanzhen (also written Ding Xianzhi with a variant character), came from Qu'a in Runzhou, present-day Danyang, Jiangsu, and his dates are unknown. He passed the jinshi in 725 and served as registrar and then county commandant of Yuhang. His Ding Yuhang ji in two scrolls is lost; fourteen poems survive in the Complete Tang Poems, and the Qianjia shi includes his work.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; jinshi in 725 CE, active in the High Tang