Zhao Gu, courtesy name Chengyou, was a native of Shanyang, Chuzhou (now Huai’an District, Huai’an City, Jiangsu Province), and a poet of the Tang Dynasty. He was born in the first year of Yuanhe reign of Emperor Xianzong (806). He traveled extensively when he was young, but failed the provincial examination in the seventh year of Dahe reign. He stayed in Chang’an for many years, visiting wealthy families to pursue fame and fortune. During this time, he seemed to have worked in the government of Lingbiao for several years. Later, he returned to Jiangdong and settled in Runzhou (now Zhenjiang). He passed the imperial examination in the fourth year of Huichang reign and returned to the east a year later. At the end of Huichang reign or the beginning of Dazhong reign, he returned to Chang’an and became a Weinan Wei. He died in office in the sixth or seventh year of Dazhong reign of Emperor Xuanzong (852, 853).
赵嘏，字承佑，楚州山阳（今江苏省淮安市淮安区）人，唐代诗人。约生于宪宗元和元年(806).年轻时四处游历，大和七年预省试进士下第，留寓长安多年，出入豪门以干功名，其间似曾远去岭表当了几年幕府。后回江东,家于润州(今镇江).会昌四年进士及第,一年后东归。会昌末或大中初复往长安，入仕为渭南尉。约宣宗大中六、七年(852、853)卒于任上。
《送别》 赵嘏
去日家无儋石储，汝须勤若事樵渔。
古人尽向尘中远，白日耕田夜读书。
Farewell Speech
Zhao Gu
Now you leave home, we have but a few litres of grain,
You can earn a fisher’s wages or follow a woodman’s way.
Young people of yore, when going out to learn, would fain
Burn the midnight oil and till the fields in the day.
