The Textual Research on the Author of Luomei-a Poem of Song Dynasty

The Complete Works of Song Dynasty Poems embodies both You Mao’s poem Luomei in Vol. No. 2336 as well as Zhang Shi’s poem Luomei in Vol. No. 2422. Although there are word differences between these two poems, in my opinion, the differences should be attributed to the error of block printing and these two poems are indeed one poem. Based on these two poets’ background, the use of words in the poem as well as my textual research, the poem Luomei should be a work of You Mao. Furthermore, I believe that Luomei was most possibly written by You Mao as a poem and as a rhyme.