Jiang Kui (1154—1221year) was a native of Zhang Yao, a passerby in Baishi, Han nationality, and a native of Poyang, Raozhou (now Poyang County, Jiangxi Province). Writers and musicians in the Southern Song Dynasty.
He is a poor boy, who has tried many times. He has never been an official all his life, and he has been wandering the rivers and lakes all his life, helping his friends by selling words for a living. He is versatile, proficient in temperament, able to compose his own music, and clear pronunciation and mellow voice. His works are famous for their ethereal subtlety. Jiang Kui is good at poetry, prose, calligraphy and music, and is another rare artistic all-rounder after Su Shi. Jiang Kui's ci has a wide range of themes, such as feeling of time, lyricism, chanting things, love, writing scenery, remembering trips, arranging festivals, making friends and giving gifts. In his poems, he expressed that although he was in the Jianghu, he never forgot the feelings of the monarch and the minister and the thoughts of harming the heavens and the earth, described his wandering life, and expressed his depressed mood of being unworthy of the world and frustrated in love, as well as his transcendent and refined character like a lonely cloud and wild crane. Jiang Kui lived in Hangzhou West Lake and was buried in Ximacheng.