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 Hòu-Liáng 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.