Shen Bin, [lived between 853 and 957 AD], courtesy name Ziwen, (Zimei in the Five Dynasties Poetry Talk. This is from the Tang Talents Biography) was from Gaoan, Yunzhou. The year of his birth and death is unknown. He lived between the seventh year of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and the fourth year of Emperor Shizong of Zhou, and was about ninety years old. He was orphaned at a young age and studied hard. He failed the imperial examination. In the middle of Qianfu (around 877 AD), he traveled to Hu and Xiang in the south and hid in Yunyang Mountain for several years. He also traveled to Lingbiao for about twenty years before returning to Wuzhong. He was a poet friend with monks Xuzhong and Qiji. At that time, Li Sheng of the Southern Tang Dynasty was stationed in Jinling, and Luo Junyi was a scholar. Bin was invited to the position, and knew that Sheng wanted to marry Yang. So he presented a landscape painting with a poem saying: “You must know that the brushwork is firm, and you are not afraid of the difficulty of tidying up the mountains and rivers.” Sheng was very happy and appointed him as a secretary. In the middle of Bao Dazhong, he retired as the Minister of Personnel. After returning home, he moved to Yichun. He was over eighty years old. Li Jing summoned him because of his old favor and gave him grain and silk to make his son an official. Bin wrote a collection of poems, “Biographies of Talented Men in the Tang Dynasty”, which has been passed down to the world.
沈彬，[约公元八五三年至九五七年间在世]字子文，（五代诗话作子美。此从唐才子传）筠州高安人。生卒年均不详，约唐宣宗大中七年至周世宗显德四年间在世，年约九十岁左右。少孤，苦学。应举不策。乾符中，（公元八七七年左右）南游湖、湘，隐云阳山数年。又游岭表，约二十年，始还吴中。与僧虚中、齐己为诗友。时南唐李升镇金陵，旁罗俊逸儒宿。彬应辟，知升欲取杨氏，因献画山水诗云：“须知笔力安排定，不怕山河整顿难”。升大喜，授秘书郎。保大中，以吏部侍郎致仕。归，徙居宜春。时年八十余。李璟以旧恩召见，赐粟帛官其子。彬著有诗集一卷，《唐才子传》传于世。
沈彬·《吊边人》
杀声沈后野风悲，汉月高时望不归。
白骨已枯沙上草，家人犹自寄寒衣。
Condolence for Frontier Men
Shen Bin
Unruly winds howl after war cries die down;
A full moon does not bring back the warrior
Whose white bones lie dried in withered grass,
While from his family is sent a winter gown.
