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Dugu Ji
- Qin Shi #124		 獨孤及 1
琴史 #124 2

Dugu Ji (725 - 777) was from a Turkic family married into the Sui and Tang royal families, living in Loyang.3 He had an important official career under the Tang, but "is known mainly as a literary critic, an advocate of free prose, and an early, though indirect, influence on the great free-prose writer Han Yu."4

There are several stories about Dugu Ji as a qin player. The one in Qin Shi tells of his taking his his qin to Matui Shan (elsewhere Ma Shan5), adding a poem.

See also Qinshu Daquan,

Folio 20B, #25 (a related but completely different poem, at Ma Shan)
Folio 16, #55 (another version of the story told under Shi Jingshan).
Folio 17, #47 (he beats an iron and plays qin while a gibbon howls.

The original biography in Qin Shi, under the title Dugu Xian Gong, is as follows.

Dugu Ji, style name Zhizhi, from Loyang, was noted for his essays.... He was also fond of playing qin. He once wrapped up his qin and carried it up Matui Shan. There is a poem (about this?) that says,

微風度竹來，韻我鐘期弦。
曲終予亦酣，起舞山水前。

.... He was canonized Xian Gong.

Further details in preparation. 3

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 Bio/1757 獨孤及，字至之，謚憲公; ICTCL, p.820: scholar official, became 太常博士 (Erudite in the Court of Imperial Sacrifices), and finally had prefectureship of 常州 Changzhou. Canonized "Exemplary Duke". (Return)

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3 Others were also involved with the qin. For example, his cousin Dugu Mian had a son, Dugu Shi, who wrote a Jiu Diao Cao. (Return)

4 ICTCL, p.820 (Return)

5 45550.431 馬退 Matui says it is a mountain north of 南寧 Nanning, near Kunming, quite far away. Elsewhere it says only 馬山 Ma Shan; 45550.44 lists several, including one in Henan, 內鄉縣. (Return)

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