Sikong Shu
Sikong Sikong Shu or Ssü-k'ung Shu (c. 720 – c. 790) was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty.
Also recorded as Sikong Shisi · Wenming · Wenchu
Sikong Shu
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- 720
- Died
- 790
- Nationality
- Tang dynasty
- Occupation
- poet · writer
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Three of his poems were included in the popular anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems. Sikong was known as one of the "Ten Poets of Talent of the Dali period" (766–779), which was Emperor Daizong of Tang's third and final regnal period.
The year of Sikong Shu's birth is not known. He was a native of what is now Guangping County, of Hebei Province, China. He was moderately successful in his career as a governmental official.
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Sikong Shu's poems as collected in Three Hundred Tang Poems were translated by Witter Bynner as: • "A Farewell to Han Shen at the Yunyang Inn" • "When Lu Lun my Cousin Comes for the Night" • "To a Friend Bound North After the Rebellion"
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- 1.Selon d’autres sources ce serait Wenchu ( )
- 2.Sikong Shu. 全唐詩 (Poésie complète des Tang). Zhonghua Shuju. 2011. 9787101017168.
- 3.auteurs sous la direction de Rémi Mathieu. Anthologie de la poésie chinoise. Gallimard. 1547. 2015.
- 4.Albert Richard Davis. The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse. Penguin Books. 1970.
- 5.Avec Sikong Shu, les « Dix talents de l'ère Dali » sont Han Hong, Li Duan, Lu Lun, Ji Zhongfu, Qian Qi, Miao Fa, Cui Dong, Geng Wei, Xiahou Shen.
- 6.司空曙 (Sikong Shu). Sohu.com. 2024.
- 7.傅璇琮 (Fu Xuanzong). 唐代诗人丛考 (Étude des poètes de la dynastie Tang). Zhonghua Shuju. 2003. 7101035965.
- 8.Dans son poème Lettre à un ami exilé (寄遠方友人), Lu Lun parle de ses amis dispersés et tombés, tous exilés. « Ayant reçu le manuscrit de Geng Wei, je raconte les anciens amis de Chang’an dispersés et tombés… et Sikong Shu, magistrat de Changlin, tous exilés dans des contrées lointaines. » (Traduction libre de : 得耿湋司法書因敘長安故友零落…長林司空丞曙，俱謫遠方 »)
- 9.司空曙 (Sikong Shu). 2020.
- 10.符載 (Fu Zai). 劍南西川幕府諸公寫真贊 (並序) (Éloge des fonctionnaires du bureau militaire de Jiannan Xichuan (avec préface). 788.
- 11.吴迪 (Wu Di). 中国文学史 (第三版）辅导及习题集 [M] (Histoire de la littérature chinoise (3 ᵉ édition), guide et recueil d’exercices [M]). Presses de l’Université des Transports du Sud-Ouest. 2-13.
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