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Zhao Mingcheng

Type Figure Region China Time 1081–1129 Also known as Defu

Zhao Mingcheng (style name Defu) was a Northern Song epigrapher and book collector from Zhucheng, Mizhou, son of chancellor Zhao Tingzhi and husband …

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  1. 1111–1120Qingzhou · QingzhouIn the first year of Zhenghe, Zhao Tingzhi's wrongful case was cleared and Zhao Mingcheng and his brothers were restored to office. For over a decade he lived in seclusion in Qingzhou, where he and his wife Li Qingzhao pawned clothing to collect bronzes, paintings, calligraphy, and inscriptions from the Three Dynasties onward, collating and compiling the Jinshi Lu, covering from the Three Dynasties down to the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties, in two thousand scrolls, a celebrated work of Song epigraphy.

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