Dai Shulun

Dai Shulun (, 732-789) was a Chinese poet of the mid-Tang period.

Biography

Dai Shulun, born in 732, was a native of Jintan, Runzhou (in today's Jiangsu). He served as a government official, however, in his later years, he was banished from the imperial court after the death of Emperor Daizong in 779. He was recalled ten years later back to the court, but died before he reached the capital in 789.

Works Dai had ten collections of poetry published, but only two have survived to the present day.