Wang Jiusi

(1468 - 1551)

For his association with the corrupt imperial eunuch Liu Jin, Wang Jiusi and his friend and fellow poet Kang Hai were forced into early retirement and spent the rest of their lives living and writing in Shangxi Province. In one of his satirical plays, Wang wrote about the eighth-century poet Du Fu, who at one point declines a position offered to him by a new prime minister, saying that he would prefer to spend his time “buying drink, making spring outings, and going to sea on a raft.”