Liú Chángqīng 劉長卿 (ca. 718–790)
Zì Wénfáng 文房. Native of Héjiān 河間 (modern Cāngzhōu, Héběi) by some accounts, Xuānchéng 宣城 by others; the Tang sources disagree. Jìnshì of Kāiyuán 21 (733) by some sources, of Tiānbǎo 14 (755) by others — the Sòng catalogs disagree. The catalog meta dates the birth to 733, which is implausible if his jìnshì is Kāiyuán 21 of the same year; the standard scholarly bracket is ca. 718–790.
Demoted twice in the post-rebellion years: to Pòzhōu sīmǎ 鄱州司馬 in Zhìdé (756–757) over factional infighting, and again in Dàlì (770s). His career took him through provincial cìshǐ posts in southern China, terminating with Suízhōu cìshǐ 隨州刺史 (modern Suízhōu, Húběi) — whence Liú Suízhōu 劉隨州. Died at Suízhōu in Zhēnyuán 6 (790).
One of the Dàlì shí cáizǐ 大曆十才子 (“Ten Talented Men of the Dàlì period”), though older than most of the group and stylistically transitional between the High Tang and the Dàlì generation. Yán Yǔ 嚴羽’s Cāngláng shīhuà gave him the epithet Wǔyán chángchéng 五言長城 (“Long-Wall of the Five-Character Verse”). His extant collection is the Liú Suízhōu jí KR4c0032 in 11 juǎn. The famous quatrain Féng Xuě sù Fúróngshān zhǔ 逢雪宿芙蓉山主人 (with its closing line fēng xuě yè guī rén 風雪夜歸人) is one of the most-anthologized poems of the entire Dàlì generation.
CBDB cbdbId 33566 records death year 790 with floruit 757–779.