Pi Rixiu (; ca. 834 – 883) was a
Tang dynasty
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poet
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. His
courtesy name
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s were Yishao () and Ximei (), and he wrote under the
pen name
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Lumenzi (). Pi was a contemporary of poet
Lu Guimeng; these two poets are often referred to as Pi-Lu.
Pi was born at
Xiangyang
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, in modern
Hubei
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Province. He is thought to have been of humble birth. He spent his youth traveling and writing: his verse was well known by the time he sat for the civil service examination
[ Jaroslav Průšek and Zbigniew Słupski, eds., Dictionary of Oriental Literatures: East Asia (Charles Tuttle, 1978): 140-141.] in 867, when he obtained a degree of
Jinshi. After traveling to
Suzhou
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Founded in 514 BC, Suzhou rapidly grew in size by the ...
in 868, he became Suzhou magistrate in 869. Later, he participated in the defeat of the
Huang Chao's rebellion, and subsequently retired in southern China.
References
External links
* Qian, Zhonglian
"Pi Rixiu" ''
Encyclopedia of China
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'' (Chinese Literature Edition), 1st ed.
Complete Works of Pi Rixiu*Books of the ''
Quan Tangshi'' that include collected poems of Pi Rixiu at the
Chinese Text Project:
Book 608Book 609Book 610
Book 611Book 612Book 613
Book 614Book 615Book 616
Pʻi Jih-hsiu
( William H. Nienhauser, Jr., 1979)
9th-century writers
Tang dynasty poets
830s births
883 deaths
Qi (Huang Chao)
People from Xiangyang
Poets from Hubei
9th-century Chinese poets
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