Fan Chengda

Fan Chengda (1126-1193), whose courtesy name was Zhineng, was known as Shihu layman. Han nationality, from Wuxian County, Pingjiang (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province). Poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. Posthumous title Wenmu. Starting from the Jiangxi School, he later studied the poetry of the Middle and Late Tang Dynasties, inherited the realism spirit of the New Yuefu poets such as Bai Juyi, Wang Jian, and Zhang Ji, and finally became his own school. The style is simple, fresh and charming. Poetry has a wide range of themes, and the works that reflect the content of rural social life are the most successful. Together with Yang Wanli, Lu You and You Miao, he is known as the "Four Great ZTE Poets" of the Southern Song Dynasty.