Shang Ting Biography | Poet

Shang Ting (1209–1288), also known as Shang Mengqing and in old age as “The Old Man of Zuo Mountain” . was a Yuan period writer of Chinese Sanqu poetry. He was also a noted calligrapher and landscape artist. Unfortunately, although a prolific poet, most of his writings have been lost. The surviving sanqu poems of the poet are all written to the same musical mode and song title. However the content of the poems suggests they were written at different times. His son Shang Qi was likewise an official and artist.