Dù Xúnhè 杜荀鶴 (846–904, zì Yànzhī 彥之, hào Jiǔhuá shānrén 九華山人 — from Mt. Jiǔhuá in Chízhōu), of Chízhōu 池州 (modern Ānhuī). According to Jì Yǒugōng’s Táng shī jìshì, Xúnhè was the natural son of Dù Mù 杜牧 — a tradition the Sìkù tíyào casts doubt on. Jìnshì of Dàshùn 1 (890), placing 2nd in his class.
His career was disgraceful in the Sìkù reading: at the Xīzōng end, he ingratiated himself with Tián Yǒu 田頵 (military governor of Xuānzhōu); when Tián rebelled, Xúnhè secretly served as messenger to the future HòuLiáng founder Zhū Quánzhōng 朱全忠. When Tián was killed (904), Zhū awarded Xúnhè Hànlín xuéshì, Zhǔkè yuánwàiláng zhōng zhī zhìgào — but Xúnhè died in Tiānyòu 1 (904), perhaps assassinated. The tíyào describes his career as zhì bùzú dào (utterly unworthy of comment), explicitly contrasting him with the loyalist Hán Wò 韓偓 of the same generation.
His most-quoted couplet — fēng nuǎn niǎo shēng suì / rì gāo huā yǐng zhòng (“warm wind making bird-song fragmented / high sun making flower-shadow heavy”) — was challenged in Ōuyáng Xiū’s Liùyī shīhuà as actually Zhōu Pǔ’s 周朴 work; the tíyào accepts this, treating Xúnhè’s signature line as a stolen ornament.
Principal work in the corpus: Tángfēng jí KR4c0099 in 3 juǎn. CBDB id 34916 confirms 846–904.