[3]Origin and namesChu Guangxi came from Yanling in Runzhou, had ancestral or commandery ties to Yanzhou, was twelfth in birth order, and was known as Chu Shier and later 儲太祝.
CBDBChu Guangxi (94771)The record gives Yanzhou as the ancestral place and Yanling as the basic domicile, records the birth-order name Chu Shier, and lists the office of 太祝.
Souyun儲光羲 (12856)The biographical entries give his Runzhou Yanling origin, Yanzhou ancestry, twelfth birth order, and the name 儲太祝.
[4]Examination, offices, and retreatChu passed the jinshi examination in 726, shared the list with Cui Guofu and Qi Wuqian, held county posts at the places named, and later retired to Zhongnan after returning home.
CBDBChu Guangxi (94771)The examination data records the jinshi status; the office data records Fengyi county assistant and county lieutenant posts at Sishui, Anyi, and Xia Gui.
Souyun儲光羲 (12856)The biographies give the 726 examination, the same-list colleagues, the county appointments, and the resignation, retreat into Qin, and Zhongnan seclusion; they also preserve the Fengyi title variation.
[5]Later career and Fanyang missionChu returned to office as 太祝, became an investigating censor, went on a mission to Fanyang at the end of Tianbao, and wrote poems expressing concern about the political situation.
Souyun儲光羲 (12856)The biographies describe the return as 太祝, the transfer to Investigating Censor, the Fanyang mission, An Lushan’s three commands and plotting, and the two poems with their political concern.
[6]An Lushan rebellion and deathDuring the rebellion Chu was captured, compelled to accept a puppet office, escaped back to the court, was imprisoned after the recovery of the two capitals, and died in exile in Lingnan.
Souyun儲光羲 (12856)The three biographies describe the fall of Chang’an, Chu’s capture and coerced office, his escape and return, and the imprisonment and banishment that followed the recovery of the capitals.
[7]Associations and familyChu had poetic and prose exchanges with the named Tang figures, received such gifts from Du Fu, Meng Haoran, and Qi Wuqian, and Chu Sizong was his grandson.
CBDBChu Guangxi (94771)The association records list the named poetic and prose exchanges and the received gifts; the kinship record identifies Chu Sizong as his grandson.
[8]Poetic characteristicsChu was known for landscape and pastoral poetry, wrote many pentasyllabic old-style poems, and was praised for a plain, archaic style with elevated manner, distant resonance, and deep feeling.
Souyun儲光羲 (12856)The criticism mentions his celebrated landscape and pastoral poems, the abundance of his pentasyllabic old-style verse, and its plain, archaic, elevated, and deeply feeling qualities.
[9]Comparative and technical criticismCritics compared Chu with Tao Yuanming and Wang Wei, praised his rural poetry, and also criticized the similarity and uneven workmanship of parts of his verse.
Souyun儲光羲 (12856)The critical entries compare him with Tao Yuanming and Wang Wei, call him sincere and graceful and skilled in rural subjects, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the specified poems and of his extensive but similar output.
[10]Poetry collectionsThe sources give differing traditions for the five-volume and lost seventy-volume collections, record a circulating five-volume poetry collection, and describe his inclusion in the Complete Tang Poems and its supplement.
Souyun儲光羲 (12856)The literary entries give the five-volume and lost seventy-volume traditions, the circulating five-volume poetry collection, the four volumes in 全唐詩, and the supplementary poem.
[11]Other works and disputed attributionChu is credited with two lost treatises, a lost anthology of eighteen poets, and a diary attribution later judged erroneous; the treatise title has two written forms.
CBDBChu Guangxi (94771)The works data lists 九經外議疏 and 正論, preserving the two written forms of the former title.
Souyun儲光羲 (12856)The literary entries give the two treatises and their loss, describe the eighteen-poet 丹陽集 and its loss, and explain why the 從賊中詣行在日記 attribution is considered erroneous.
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