Mi Fu

TimelineCBDB

1. 1104 知某軍事
2. 1128 縣尉

Office recordsCBDB

FamilyCBDB

AliasesCBDB

• 元章 字
• 家居道士 室名、別號
• 海嶽外史 室名、別號
• 無礙居士 室名、別號
• 米黻 别名、曾用名

StatusCBDB

• 書法家
• 道士
• [供奉內廷]
• 畫家
• 鑒賞家
• 收藏家
• 好金石
• [為官者：文]

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Citations

1. [1] Identity, dates, and status The sources jointly identify Mi Fu as a Song-period artist and writer. His birth is consistently given as 1051; most accounts give his death as 1107, while one gives 1109, and the sources describe his calligraphy, painting, writing, and connoisseurship.
   • CBDBMi Fu (3676)The main entry gives the name Mi Fu, birth year 1051, death year 1107, and Song dynasty, while the status entries identify him as a calligrapher, painter, and connoisseur.
   • Souyun米芾 (30934)The four biographical texts confirm the Song-period identity and the principal dates; one text gives 1051–1109, and the texts describe poetry, prose, calligraphy, painting, and connoisseurship.
   • WikidataMi Fu (Q320129)The English label is Mi Fu, and the English description calls him a Chinese artist born in 1051 and deceased in 1107.
2. [2] Names and sobriquets The biographical texts and name data preserve the alternate written form 黻, the courtesy name Yuanzhang, several sobriquets, and the honorific or popular names by which he was known; the English name data also includes Mi Fei.
   • CBDBMi Fu (3676)The name entries identify Yuanzhang as the courtesy name, list Jiaju Daoshi, Haiyu Waishi, and Wu'ai jushi as sobriquets or studio names, and preserve Mi 黻 as an alternate name.
   • Souyun米芾 (30934)The biographical texts give the written form 黻, the courtesy name 元章, the sobriquets 鹿門居士, 襄陽漫士, and 海嶽外史, and the popular names 米襄陽, 米南宮, and 米顛.
   • WikidataMi Fu (Q320129)The name data preserve the Chinese aliases and list Mi Fei and Yuanzhang among the English-language name forms.
3. [3] Origins and migrations The geographical evidence is divergent: one address set gives Xiangyang as ancestral home and Wuxian as the basic registered place, while the biographical texts describe movement from Taiyuan to Xiangyang and Dantu and explain the Wu and Xiangyang appellations.
   • CBDBMi Fu (3676)The address entries give Xiangyang as the ancestral place and Wuxian as the basic registered place.
   • Souyun米芾 (30934)The biographical material gives Taiyuan as the original home, describes moves to Xiangyang and Dantu, and connects settlement in Dantu with the designations man of Wu and Mi Xiangyang.
4. [4] Official career The biographical texts describe entry through hereditary privilege, local and circuit appointments, the calligraphy-and-painting academy, the Ministry of Rites, and Huaiyang; the office entries preserve the variant Hanguang spelling and additional office titles.
   • CBDBMi Fu (3676)The office data list hereditary appointment, the Hanguang county-lieutenant entry, 判司簿尉, Lianshui, Wuwei, 博士, 太常寺博士, Yongqiu, and the Ministry of Rites staff post.
   • Souyun米芾 (30934)The biographical texts describe entry as 浛光尉, service at Yongqiu, Lianshui, and Wuwei, work in the Jiang-Huai-Jing-Zhe transport administration, the calligraphy-and-painting academy, the Ministry of Rites, and Huaiyang.
5. [5] Huaiyang appointment and death The Huaiyang appointment has two chronological formulations: the office data give 1104–1105, whereas the biographical narrative places it in the first year of Daguan and says that he died at fifty-seven.
   • CBDBMi Fu (3676)The office entry gives the Huaiyang military appointment as 1104–1105, while the main entry gives the death year as 1107.
   • Souyun米芾 (30934)The biographical texts place the Huaiyang appointment in the first year of Daguan and state that he died at fifty-seven.
6. [6] Temperament and court status The biographical text describes eccentric conduct and fastidious cleanliness; the status entries identify Daoism, connoisseurship, collecting, and a love of antiquities, and date inner-court service to 1107.
   • CBDBMi Fu (3676)The status entries identify him as a Daoist, inner-court attendant, connoisseur, collector, and lover of antiquities, with inner-court service dated to 1107.
   • Souyun米芾 (30934)The biographical text describes his manner as eccentric and says that he had a strong cleanliness taboo.
7. [7] Family and associations The kin entries identify two sons and a son-in-law with the available dates. The association entries identify Zhong Zhengfu as a friend and connect Li Jia and Zhang Jing with Mi Fu’s appreciation of their literary and painting abilities.
   • CBDBMi Fu (3676)The kin entries confirm Mi Youren and Mi Youzhi as sons and Wu Ji as a son-in-law, with dates for Mi Youren and Wu Ji. The association entries call Zhong Zhengfu a friend and classify Li Jia and Zhang Jing under appreciation or esteem, with notes on ci verse and miscellaneous painting.
8. [8] Writing and calligraphy The biographical texts describe poetry and prose, unconventional prose, calligraphy and painting, connoisseurship, Wang Xianzhi’s influence, and particular skill in running script and cursive.
   • CBDBMi Fu (3676)The status entries identify him as a calligrapher, painter, and connoisseur.
   • Souyun米芾 (30934)The biographical texts describe his poetry, prose, unconventional writing, calligraphy, painting, connoisseurship, Wang Xianzhi’s influence, and skill in running script and cursive.
9. [9] Four Masters and painting style The texts agree on Cai Xiang, Su Shi, and Huang Tingjian in the Four Masters formulation while preserving Cai Jing as an alternative to Cai Xiang; they also describe Dong Yuan, ink-dotting, a distinctive style, and emulation so exact that copies could be indistinguishable from originals.
   • Souyun米芾 (30934)The three biographical texts support the Four Masters formulation and the painting description; one explicitly gives Cai Xiang with Cai Jing as an alternative, while another gives Cai Xiang and describes Dong Yuan, ink-dotting, and emulation to the point of indistinguishability.
10. [10] Works and titles The bibliographical entries list ten titles, with several explicitly assigned to Mi Fu and others left without a specified role; the biographical texts independently list many of the same works.
    • CBDBMi Fu (3676)The bibliographical entries list all ten titles in the paragraph; some entries explicitly identify Mi Fu as author, while others have no specified role, so the paragraph calls them associated titles.
    • Souyun米芾 (30934)The biographical texts list Baojin Yingguang ji, Shushi, Huashi, Baozhang Daifang lu, Yanshi, Haiyue Tibai, and Haiyue Mingyan among his works.
11. [11] Transmission of the collections The biographical text says that the hundred-juan Shanlin ji was lost, that Yue Ke compiled Baojin Yingguang ji, and that later editors continued it as Baojin Shanlin ji shiyi.
    • Souyun米芾 (30934)The biographical text gives the hundred-juan size and loss of Shanlin ji, Yue Ke’s compilation of Baojin Yingguang ji, and the later continuation Baojin Shanlin ji shiyi.
12. [12] Editing of the poetry The biographical text identifies the first-year Jiatai edition of the eight-juan Baojin Shanlin ji shiyi as the base text, lists the collation witnesses, and says that poems outside the collection were appended.
    • Souyun米芾 (30934)The biographical text specifies the Jiatai first-year Junyang commandery-studio edition, its eight-juan extent, the Siku Quanshu, Qing Xianfeng Shewen ziju, and Japanese Heshan editions used for collation, and the appended poems outside the collection.