Tang Cai Zi Zhuan
# Tang Cai Zi Zhuan

The Tang Cai Zi Zhuan (simplified Chinese: 唐才子传; traditional Chinese: 唐才子傳; pinyin: Táng Cái Zǐ Zhuán; Wade–Giles: $Tang^3$ $Tsai^1$ $Tzu^3$ $Chuan^1)$ is a Chinese collection of biographies of poets of the Tang Dynasty.

## Compiler and date

It was compiled by the Yuan dynasty figure Xin Wenfang [zh].

## Contents

It is in ten volumes, and contains biographies of 278 poets.

## Textual tradition

The work was lost in China from the mid-Ming dynasty. It was, however, copied in Japan at the Five Mountains, and that text was later reexported back to China at the end of the Qing dynasty.

