Li Shangyin

Li Shangyin was born around 813 in Henei, present-day Qinyang, in Henan, into a family of minor officials. Having passed the doctoral examination in 837, he was caught between the two rival factions of the court: regarded as the disciple of a leader of one of them, he married the daughter of a man of the other and was rejected by both sides, according to Daily Zhongwen. He never obtained a high post and died around 858, in Zhengzhou according to Britannica. Little recognised in his lifetime, he influenced the first poets of the Song.

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