[1]Identity, names, and originsThe evidence identifies Dai Shulun as a Tang poet, man of letters, and calligrapher born in 732 and deceased in 789; it also gives his courtesy names, personal-name variant, commandery, and native place.
CBDBDai Shulun (146237)The person data supplies the English name, the 732–789 lifespan, the three occupational statuses, and the courtesy-name forms Yougong and Cigong.
Souyun戴叔倫 (15243)The biographical profile and notices give his dynasty, native place, courtesy names, personal-name variant Rong, commandery, and lifespan.
WikidataDai Shulun (Q11075245)The English identity data gives Dai Shulun, the alias forms Cigong, Dai Rong, Shulun, and Yougong, and the 732 and 789 date claims.
[2]Early life and Liu Yan’s officeThe biographical notices describe his study with Xiao Yingshi, refuge at Poyang, recommendation by Liu Yan, and successive posts in the salt-and-iron and transport administration.
Souyun戴叔倫 (15243)Both biographical notices recount his studies, flight to Poyang, recommendation by Liu Yan, salt-and-iron office, Guangwen and censorial posts, and the Hunan and Henan transport appointments.
[3]Dongyang and Li Gao’s headquartersHe became magistrate of Dongyang in 780 and then entered Li Gao’s headquarters, where the two notices vary between the titles panguan and congshi while agreeing on his later offices.
Souyun戴叔倫 (15243)The notices give the Jianzhong dates, Dongyang appointment, Li Gao headquarters, the panguan/congshi variation, and the sequence from judicial and censorial posts to the Ministry of Rites.
CBDBDai Shulun (146237)The office data identifies a county magistracy at Dongyang.
[4]Fuzhou, irrigation policy, and enfeoffmentThe notices place him as acting prefect of Fuzhou in 784, recount his irrigation policy during Li Gao’s campaign, and state that he was enfeoffed the following year; an office list gives Linchuan instead.
Souyun戴叔倫 (15243)The notices recount his acting prefecture, Li Gao’s campaign, management of the headquarters, equal-water method, and Qiaoxian enfeoffment, with the appointment dated 784 in one notice.
CBDBDai Shulun (146237)The office data gives a 784–786 prefectural appointment at Linchuan and separately lists the Qiaoxian baronial title, creating the stated location variation.
[5]Late offices, death, and burialThe material describes his resignation in 786, recall to Rongzhou in 788, variant Puning and Yun’an appointments, the Dai Rongzhou name, two accounts of his death in 789, and burial at Jintan.
Souyun戴叔倫 (15243)The notices describe his resignation, Rongzhou appointment, Rongguan and censorial offices, the Dai Rongzhou name, the two death accounts, and the age of fifty-eight.
CBDBDai Shulun (146237)The office and address data supplies the Puning and Yun’an alternatives, the generic commissioner and censor titles, the 789 death year, and Jintan as the burial place.
[6]Family and literary associationsThe kinship data names his father, fathers-in-law, and sons with their death years; the association data lists figures linked through gift poems and prose.
CBDBDai Shulun (146237)The kinship entries name Dai Shenyong, Wei Cai, Cui Yin, Dai Zhi, and Dai Fang with the listed death years; the association entries identify Lu Yu, Bao Ji, Sikong Shu, and Zhu Fang among the gift-poem and prose connections.
[7]Poetry and proseThe notices call him a skilled poet who was known for his prose, describe his lost treatise and anthology, and discuss his representative poems and position in the transition toward middle-Tang poetry.
Souyun戴叔倫 (15243)The notices describe his poetry and prose, lost treatise and anthology, named poems, their artistic effects, and their place in the development of Tang poetry.
WikidataDai Shulun (Q11075245)The English description identifies him as a Tang dynasty poet.
[8]Critical assessmentsThe critical material combines praise for his conduct, poetic inspiration, diction, and historical importance with criticism of softness, hurried tone, weakly fused energy, metrical burden, and the style of particular poetic forms.
Souyun戴叔倫 (15243)The criticism praises his manner, attention to others, poetic inspiration, diction, and refinement while also discussing softness, hurried tone, unfused energy, metrical burden, weakness, and his effect on Dali pentasyllabic verse.
[9]Poetics and stylistic debatesLater criticism uses the Lantian image to discuss poetic resemblance, criticizes the Rongzhou ancient verse, and offers competing accounts of his poetic sources and forms.
Souyun戴叔倫 (15243)The critical passages contain the Lantian and jade image, the negative assessments of Rongzhou verse and plain writing, and the alternative views on Shen Yue, ancient verse, yuefu, and regulated verse.
[10]Works and transmissionThe evidence lists lost works, the Ming two-scroll collection, attribution problems in the two scrolls of the Complete Tang Poems, the supplementary items, a collated edition, and the surviving ci lyric.
Souyun戴叔倫 (15243)The literary notices list the lost works, Ming collection, Complete Tang Poems attribution problems, supplementary counts, Jiang Yin’s collated edition, and the surviving ci lyric.
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