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Li Jiayou
Poet of the High to Mid-Tang from Zhaozhou, a jinshi of 748 who served as magistrate of Poyang and prefect of Yuan and Tai; over 130 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 Congyi
Li Jiayou, courtesy name Congyi, came from Zhaozhou in modern Hebei, and his dates are unknown; one source gives 719 for his birth, without clear basis. He passed the jinshi in 748 and served as Corrector in the Palace Library, magistrate of Poyang and Jiangyin, and Vice Director of Merits, then prefect of Yuanzhou and Taizhou in the Dali era, dying perhaps around the Jianzhong years (780–783). The Complete Tang Poems preserves 134 of his poems in two scrolls.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; jinshi 748 CE, died perhaps in the 780s