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Xiao Zhao [Hsiao Chao]
(b Huce, Shanxi Province; fl c. 1130–62). Chinese painter. During the political disorders at the end of the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) he found refuge in the Taihang Mountains, where he pursued a path of brigandage and captured the painter Li Tang. Startled by the discovery that his victim’s baggage contained only the tools of painting, according to Zhuang Su and Xia Wenyan he decided to abandon robbery for painting. As Li Tang’s pupil he went with him to the south and became a major figure at the reconstituted imperial Painting Academy in Lin’an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang province), capital of the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279). He was a favourite of the emperor, Gao zong (reg 1127–62), being appointed a dai zhao (‘painter-in-attendance’) with the honorary title di gong lang (‘gentleman for meritorious achievement’).
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