秦观
宋
Qin Guan, courtesy name Shaoyou and also Taixu, styled himself Huaihai Jushi. He was a Northern Song dynasty poet and one of the "Four Scholars of the Su School" associated with Su Shi. Qin Guan is best known for his graceful and emotionally delicate ci poetry. His works often combine refined natural imagery with personal melancholy, shaped in part by his difficult official career and repeated demotions. While many of his poems express longing, exile, and sorrow, "Hao Shi Jin · Composed in a Dream" reveals a lighter and more dreamlike side of his art.