Zhū Qìngyú 朱慶餘 (fl. ca. 826, zì Kějiǔ 可久), of Yuèzhōu 越州 (modern Zhèjiāng Shàoxīng). Jìnshì of Bǎolì 2 (826), the year Bái Jūyì 白居易 was governor of Sūzhōu and Zhāng Jí 張籍 (= KR4c0053) was Shuǐbù yuánwàiláng in Chángān.
Zhū is preserved in the canonical record principally through one poem and its reply: the Jìnshì shàng Zhāng Shuǐbù 近試上張水部 (“On the Eve of the Examination, Sent to Zhāng Shuǐbù”) — a juéjù using the xīnfù (newly-married bride asking her husband whether her makeup is suitable to face her in-laws) figure to ask Zhāng Jí whether his poetry is suitable for the examination context. Zhāng’s matching reply (Chóu Zhū Qìngyú) — “Yuènǚ xīnzhuāng chū jìngxīn / zì zhī míngyàn gèng chényín” — became the canonical example of poet-to-poet veiled advice and is taught universally as the prototype of fú (allegorical) literary criticism.
Principal work in the corpus: Zhū Qìngyú shī jí KR4c0097 in 1 juǎn (SBCK 二編). CBDB has no matching entry.