Career
Three of his poems were included in the popular anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems. Sikong was known as one of the "Ten Poets of Talent of the Dali period" (766-779), which was Emperor Daizong of Tang"s third and final regnal period. "Sikong", which is a Chinese compound surname, was a native of what is now Guangping County, of Hebei Province, China.
He was moderately successful in his career as a governmental official
