Dai Shulun

Dai Shulun (732-789), a poet of the Tang Dynasty, was born in Jintan, Runzhou (now part of Jiangsu). When he was young, he studied under Xiao Yingshi. He once served as the Xincheng Order, Dongyang Order, Fuzhou Governor, and Rongguan Jinglue Envoy. In his later years, he asked himself to be a Taoist priest. Most of his poems express a reclusive life and a leisurely mood, but "Women's Plowing in the Fields" and "Tuntian Ci" also reflect the hardships of people's lives. On Poetry, it is advocated that "Poet's scenery, such as the warm sun in Lantian and the smoke in fine jade, can be looked forward to but not placed in front of one's eyebrows." His poetry covers all genres.