Ding Xiang

Ding Xiang

It's not easy? ——He was born in Wujin (now Changzhou, Jiangsu Province).

In the second year of Jiayou's reign (1057), Li Dingyu, a traitor, became a Jinshi (Volume 11 of the annals of Xianchun piling). Su Shi, Zeng Zhao, Kong Wenzhong and other ministers recommended it, except for doctor Taichang. When Sima Guang was Prime Minister, he praised the "true self respecting scholar". In the second year of Yuanyou (1087), it is the right speech. Three years later, he changed his left speech and moved to Suzhou. In the seventh year, he was appointed member Wai Lang (continued Zizhi Tongjian Changbian volume 475). Nine years later, he died in the official house. The fourteenth volume of Wu Yi Zhi quoted Su Ziyou as saying that Ding he died of poisoning by eating puffer fish. He was good at Yi and Chunqiu, and became a writer of his own. He is the author of 20 volumes of anthology. One of his poems was recorded in volume 626 of complete song poetry. There are seven articles in volume 158O of the whole Song Dynasty. The deeds can be found in volume 2-5 of Wu Jun Zhi, Volume 17 of Xianchun piling Zhi and volume 2-1 of Song Shi Ji Shi. Ding's daughter married Su Peng, the nephew of Su Shi. Ding wrote the poem "get nephew to pay Su Dongpo".