Zhào Shīxiù 趙師秀 (1170–1219)

Zǐzhī 紫芝, hào Língxiù 靈秀 and Tiānlè 天樂. Native of Yǒngjiā 永嘉 (Wenzhou, Zhèjiāng) and one of the Yǒngjiā Sìlíng 永嘉四靈 — the four late-Southern-Sòng Yǒngjiā poets (with Xú Zhào 徐照, Xú Jǐ 徐璣, Wēng Juàn 翁卷) who explicitly took Jiǎ Dǎo 賈島 and Yáo Hé 姚合 as their poetic ancestors and consequently revived the Wǔgōng tǐ (Wǔ-gōng-style austere kǔyín) in late Sòng. Jìnshì of Shàoxī 1 (1190). Held minor offices including Gāoyóu zhǔbù and Gāoyáo wèi. His own collection is the Qīngyuànzhāi jí 清苑齋集 KR4c0210. He also compiled the Zhòngmiào jí 眾妙集 KR4h0052 in one juǎn, an anthology of Tang regulated verse selected from the standpoint of the Sìlíng poetics. CBDB has no firm entry; the lifedates 1170–1219 are followed in modern scholarship (the catalog meta gives only “fl. 1190”).