Dai Shulun

Dai Shulun ({{zh|t=戴叔倫|s=戴叔伦|p=Dài Shūlún|w=Tai Shu-lun}}, 732-789) was a Chinese poet of the mid-Tang period.{{sfnm|1a1=Ueki et al.|1y=1999|1p=105}}

Biography

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Dai Shulun, born in 732, was a native of Jintan, Runzhou (in today's Jiangsu). He served as a government official, however, in his later years, he was banished from the imperial court after the death of Emperor Daizong in 779. He then held various provincial positions, including a stint as the governor of Fuzhou, Jiangxi and as the frontier commissioner (经略使, jinglue shi) of Rongzhou ({{lang|zh|容州}}) in Guangxi.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0vhMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA105 |title=Historical Dictionary of Medieval China |author= Victor Cunrui Xiong |date=4 December 2008 |page=105|isbn=9780810862586 |publisher=The Scarecrow Press}} He was recalled ten years later back to the court, but died before he reached the capital in 789.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8F9gUwWXcUC&pg=PA141 |title=Where the World Does Not Follow: Buddhist China in Picture and Poem|editor= Mike O'Connor |page=141|publisher=Wisdom Publications|date=1 September 2002|isbn= 978-0861713097 }}

Works

Dai had ten collections of poetry published, but only two have survived to the present day. One of his poems was included in the important Qing-era anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.{{cite web |url=http://www.shicimingju.com/chaxun/list/22200.html |title=《江乡故人偶集客舍》|work=shicimingju.com}}

References

= Bibliography =

{{cite encyclopedia

|editor-last = Matsuura

|editor-first = Tomohisa

|editor-link = Tomohisa Matsuura

|last1 = Ueki

|first1 = Hisayuki

|author-link1 = Hisayuki Ueki

|last2 = Uno

|first2 = Naoto

|author-link2 = Naoto Uno

|last3 = Matsubara

|first3 = Akira

|author-link3 = Akira Matsubara

|chapter = Shijin to Shi no Shōgai (Tai Shukurin)

|pages = 105–106

|title = Kanshi no Jiten

|script-title = ja:漢詩の事典

|language = Japanese

|year = 1999

|location = Tokyo

|publisher = Taishūkan Shoten

|ref = {{SfnRef|Ueki et al.|1999}}

|oclc = 41025662

}}

External links

Books of the Quan Tangshi that include collected poems of Dai Shulun at the Chinese Text Project:
[http://ctext.org/quantangshi/268 Book 268]
[http://ctext.org/quantangshi/269 Book 269]

Category:Tang dynasty poets

Category:8th-century Chinese poets

Category:Writers from Changzhou

Category:Politicians from Changzhou

Category:Tang dynasty government officials

Category:Poets from Jiangsu

Category:Three Hundred Tang Poems poets