李咸用

Li Xianyong was a Tang dynasty poet whose official career and dates of birth and death are unknown; available public information is limited, and his name is preserved through poems recorded in the Complete Tang Poems. Three of his works are held in this collection: Inscribing Chen Zhengzi's Garden Pavilion, Seeing Off the Recluse Zhao Shu on His Return to Mount Lu, and Sending a Poem to the Monk Xiumu, all belonging to classical poetry. These titles show that Li Xianyong's writing centers on literary companionship, farewell and gift poems, and quiet mountain and forest scenes. He wrote about garden pavilions, friends retiring to the mountains, and monk-poets, with themes drawn from scholars' daily lives and friendships beyond worldly affairs. His style is generally clear and restrained, skilled at depicting scenery and expressing feeling with simple, understated strokes, and is representative of the late Tang and Five Dynasties tradition of poetic exchange. Because surviving records are scattered, biographical details are difficult to verify, but these works offer clues to his circle of associates and creative orientation, including his contacts with monks and recluses.