His family is relatively poor. He was a scholar in the 15th year of Kaiyuan, and was awarded the post of secretary of the provincial school. In the twenty-second year of Kaiyuan (734), Wang Changling chose erudite macro-words, which was superior to others, so he was appointed as the county commandant of Sishui County and then moved to Jiangning Cheng.
In the autumn of the 25th year of Kaiyuan, he was convicted and banished to Lingnan.
In the 28th year of Kaiyuan (74), Wang Changling returned to the north, traveled to Xiangyang and visited the famous poet Meng Haoran. Meng Haoran was suffering from gangrene and soon recovered. They were very happy after meeting. Meng Haoran relapsed because of drinking too much, so he died. During this period, Wang Changling met Li Bai, a great poet, with the poem "Ba Ling Send Li Twelve". It was a great pleasure for Wang Changling to meet such first-rate poets as Meng Haoran and Li Bai at that time. Unfortunately, meeting Meng Haoran became a permanent tactic, and meeting Li Bai was both on the way down. Li Baizheng was exiled to Yelang at that time.
In the winter of the 28th year of Kaiyuan (74), Wang Changling left Beijing to take up his post in Jiangning. At this time, he had already met the famous poet Cen Can. Cen Can wrote a poem "Send Wang Changling to Jiangning", and Wang Changling also wrote a poem to leave. When passing through Luoyang, I also made friends with poets such as Qian Wuqian and Li Qi, and they also had poems.
Wang Changling, as a generation of outstanding poets, has little information handed down. In addition to the above-mentioned demotion to Lingnan, I have also been demoted, and the specific time and reason are not clear. Some people think that I have been in Tianbao for six years. "Biography of Zhan Caizi" said that he "didn't pay attention to details in the late journey, slandered and discussed boiling, and fled to the wild." The Collection of Heyue Yingling said that he was "going through the wild again", and the book of the Old Tang Dynasty also said that he was "careless and often derogated" and was demoted as Long Biaowei.
What is even more tragic is that Wang Changling later failed to hold such a small post as Long Biaowei, left his post and went to Bozhou, only to be killed by the secretariat Qiu Xiao. The Biography of Talented Talents in Tang Dynasty says: Wang Changling "returned to his hometown with a knife and fire, and was killed because of the taboo of the secretariat, Lu Qiuxiao. Later, Zhang Gao marched to Henan, and at dawn, he would slaughter it, saying that he wanted to be pro-old and beg forgiveness. He said,' Who can support Wang Changling's pro-desire?' Dawn fades away. "Zhang Gao, who always sympathized with the poet, finally avenged Wang Changling.
Wang Changling was a famous poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. At that time, his fame was heavy, and he was called "Poet Master Wang Jiangning". Because the name of the poem was written earlier, I made a lot of friends with famous poets at that time, and my friendship was very deep. Besides the friends mentioned above with Li Bai and Meng Haoran, I also made friends with Gao Shi, Yun Wuqian, Li Qi, Cen Can, Wang Zhihuan, Wang Wei, Chu Guangxi and Chang Jian. He was demoted several times, lived in the remote Lingnan and Xiangxi, traveled to and from the economically developed Central Plains and Southeast China, and went to the northwest frontier, and even went to the area of Broken Leaves (now Kyrgyzstan). Because of his rich life experience and extensive friends, it is of great benefit to his poetry creation. Wang Changling is good at seven-character quatrains, and is called the Seven-Jueshou by later generations. For example, the poem "Out of the fortress" reads: "The moon was closed in Qin and the people of the Long March were not returned. But make the Dragon City fly, and don't teach Huma to cross the Yinshan Mountain. " Lamenting the incompetence of the garrison commander, his broad artistic conception, deep feelings, and his boldness of vision, it is indeed a treasure in ancient poetry and is known as the masterpiece of the Tang Dynasty. Another example is "Joining the Army", which are also well-known masterpieces. Always in my heart and Picking Lotus Songs, which reflect the unfortunate experience of ladies-in-waiting, are exquisite, vivid, fresh and beautiful, with sad style and superior artistic conception, and express the feelings of thinking about women and the innocence of girls. The farewell work "at hibiscus inn parting with xin jian" is also a masterpiece of the ages. Shen Deqian's Poems on Tang Poetry said: "The dragon label is a quatrain, full of deep feelings and bitterness, with a vague meaning, which makes people unpredictable and endless."
Yan Qiuxiao killed Wang Changling because he was jealous of talent, which was really a great destruction of ancient Chinese poetry and an eternal sinner of the Chinese nation.