Zhao Yanduan, an eminent cipoet in the South Song Dynasty, owed no personal biography in The History of the Song Dynasty, nor a compensation for it in the Addendum to The History of the Song Dynasty compiled by Lu Xinyuan in the Qing Dynasty. Zhao’s brief biography in the Collection of Cipoetry in the Song Dynasty was simply a draft, so it was concise and erroneous. Zhao Yanduan, titled as the hermit of Jie’an, who came from the county of Junyi of the prefecture of Kaifeng, now part of the metropolitan Kaifeng, lived then in the county of Nanchang of the prefecture of Hongzhou, nor part of the metropolitan Nanchang. Thus it was wrong that the author of The Collection of Cipoetry in the Song Dynasty claimed him a person from Boyang. Zhao worked as a government official all his life, and wrote The Collection of Jie’an, The Collection of Essays by Hermit Zhao of Jie’an and The Collection of Cipoetry of Jie’an.

Zhao Yanduan; The Collection of Cipoetry in the Song Dynasty; The Collection of Essays by Hermit Zhao of Jie’an; The Collection of Cipoetry of Jie’an