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Li Gou
Northern Song thinker and poet from Nancheng, known as Master of Xujiang, recommended by Fan Zhongyan and made assistant lecturer at the Imperial Academy.
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 Taibo · Master of Xujiang
Li Gou, courtesy name Taibo, from Nancheng in Jianchang (now in Jiangxi) and called Master of Xujiang, lived 1009 to 1059 as a Northern Song thinker and poet. In 1050 he was recommended by Fan Zhongyan and Yu Jing, receiving a court rank and the post of assistant lecturer at the Imperial Academy; in 1059 he briefly supervised it. His collected works, the Zhijiang Li xiansheng wenji, run to thirty-seven scrolls, and he also left the Tuiju leigao and the Huangyou xugao.
Life and times
Dates 1009 CE–1059 CE