| Li Hou Zhu |
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| song dynasty poets | |
| 930s births | |
| 978 deaths | |
| five dynasties and ten kingdoms | |
| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
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Li ascended the throne in 962 , and immediately accepted a role subservient to the Song Dynasty to the north. He devoted much of his time to pleasure-making and literature, and this is reflected in his early poems. However, his best-known poems were composed during the years after the Song formally ended his reign in in 978, after he had written a poem that, in a veiled manner, lamented the destruction of his empire and the rape of his second wife Empress Zhou The Lesser by the Song emperor. After his death, he was posthumously created the Prince of Wu (吳王). He developed the '' Ci '' by broadening its scope from Love to History and Philosophy , particularly in his later works. He also introduced the two Stanza form, and made great use of contrasts between longer lines of nine Character s and shorter ones of three and five. Only 45 of his poems survive, 37 of which have been verified to be his authentic works, the other of which maybe are composed by other writers. His story remains very popular in many Cantonese Opera s. FURTHER READING
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