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Zhao Zhi
Western Jin scholar from Dai commandery, once a pupil of Ji Kang and later a clerk in Liaoxi, who died at 37; a famous letter bears his name, though authorship is disputed.
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 Jingzhen · Originally named Zhao Jun
Zhao Zhi, courtesy name Jingzhen, originally named Jun, came from Dai commandery and was a Western Jin scholar who died aged thirty-seven; his dates are unknown. As a youth he met Ji Kang at the Imperial Academy in Luoyang and became his pupil, later serving as accounts clerk in Liaoxi, where he won a name for careful judgments and was three times summoned by You province. On returning to Luoyang in the Taikang era he learned that his mother had died and himself died, vomiting blood in grief. A famous letter to Ji Maoqi in the Wen xuan bears his name, though some attribute it to Lü An.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; died aged 37, probably in the Taikang era (280–289)