Xie Zhen (poet)

Xie Zhen (谢榛, 1495－1575) was a Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty. When he was 15 years old, he learned to write poems after Su Donggao (苏东皋). At age 16, some Yuefu poems composed by him became very popular in Linqing, Deping and nearby. Most of his poems depicted the landscape of Yecheng, where he lived for many years. In 1548 Xia Yan and Zeng Xi was executed for political struggle against Yan Song, some of Xie's friends were banished from the court, Xie wrote many poems to console them.

Xie was involved in the well known poetry circle "The Latter Seven Masters".