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Applier of official skills,
Defender honest, diligent:
Ascend to a high-ranking post,
Encourage fellow ministers.
制袍字赐狄仁杰
敷政术，
守清勤。
升显位，
励相臣。
A poem by Empress Wu Zetian (yes, the patron of Shangguan Wan’er) for Di Renjie aka the basis for Judge Dee aka the basis for Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. The bestowal was in 696, on the occasion of his promotion to military commandant of a prefecture encompassing what’s now Beijing, then a frontier post. The characters were written in gold (I assume embroidered but I haven't found a source to confirm this) on his purple official’s robe. (The original, btw, was not rhymed.)
---L.
Defender honest, diligent:
Ascend to a high-ranking post,
Encourage fellow ministers.
制袍字赐狄仁杰
敷政术，
守清勤。
升显位，
励相臣。
A poem by Empress Wu Zetian (yes, the patron of Shangguan Wan’er) for Di Renjie aka the basis for Judge Dee aka the basis for Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. The bestowal was in 696, on the occasion of his promotion to military commandant of a prefecture encompassing what’s now Beijing, then a frontier post. The characters were written in gold (I assume embroidered but I haven't found a source to confirm this) on his purple official’s robe. (The original, btw, was not rhymed.)
---L.