Eccentric early-Northern-Sòng poet, self-styled Xiāoyáo zǐ 逍遙子 (“Master Free-and-Easy”). A native of Wèizhōu Dàmíng 大名, he led an unconventional life in and out of the capital. Sponsored to court ca. 998 (probably by the powerful eunuch Wáng Jìēn 王繼恩) and granted an honorary jìnshì by Tàizōng, but soon implicated in Wáng Jìēn’s downfall and fled south; under Zhēnzōng was caught, pardoned, and given the minor post of Chúzhōu cānjūn, dying there in Dàzhōngxiángfú 2 / 1009. His birth year is unrecorded — CBDB id 33902 gives no birth year. His Jiǔ tí Qiántáng sequence on the Qiántáng tide and his angular late-Táng-style lǜshī made him a cult figure among slightly later Northern-Sòng poets — Wáng Yǔchēng 王禹偁, Liǔ Kāi 柳開, Kòu Zhǔn 寇準, Lín Bū 林逋, Sòng Bái all corresponded with him; Sū Shì later praised him in shīhuà form. The painter Xǔ Dàoníng 許道寧 produced the iconic “Pān Lǎng riding his donkey backwards” image. Surviving collection: Xiāoyáo jí KR4d0004 (1 juǎn, Sìkù reconstitution from Yǒnglè dàdiǎn).