A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Ch'ao Pu-chih
203 Ch'ao Pu-chih 鼂補之 (T. 無咎. H. 景遷). A.D. 1053—1110. A native of 鉅野 Chü-yeh in Shantung, and son of Ch'ao Tuan-yen. An official and poet of the Sung dynasty, who when quite a boy attracted the notice of Wang An-kuo. At the age of 17 he accompanied his father to Hangchow, where the great Su Shih was stationed. There he produced such an exquisite poem on the beauties of Ch'ien-t'ang that Su Shih said: "I may now lay down my pen!" Graduating first on the list of chin shih, he entered upon a public career, in which he rose to high office. On one occasion he was degraded for a mistake in the biography of the Emperor Shên Tsung. He built himself a residence which he called, from T'ao Yüan-ming's famous poem, "Home Again!" and gave himself the sobriquet of 歸來子. Author of the 雞肋篇. Regarded as one of the Four Great Scholars of the empire (see Chang Lei).