Chao Chongzhi

Who is Chao Chongzhi?

Chao Chongzhi was a Song Chinese poet. His cousins Chao Buzhi, Chao Shuozhi, Chao Yongzhi were all famous litterateur at that time. Chao had studied with Chen Shidao in the year one. He was a close friend of Lü Benzhong. His son Chao Gongwu was the author of Catalogue of Jun Zhai.

Chao was among the 26 poets of Lü Benzhong's Faction maps of the Jiangxi poets society. Liu Kezhuang said he is a pioneer of Lu You, and his poem Song yi shangren huan chuzhou langyashan was praised by Wang Shizhen.