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Zhang, a native of Yangzhou (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu), was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Former Yanzhou soldier Cao. He, Zhang Xu and Bao Rong are also called "four sons of Wuzhong". Moonlit Night on the Spring River is his masterpiece, which is regarded as the first work of Tang poetry, and enjoys the reputation of "one word over two Song Dynasties, and one isolated article covers the whole Tang poetry".
There are only two of Zhang's poems in the whole Tang Dynasty. Among them, A Moonlit Night on the Spring River is a well-known masterpiece, which follows the old topic of Sui Chen Yuefu and expresses sincere and touching feelings of parting and philosophical understanding of life. The language is fresh and beautiful, and the rhythm is melodious, which washes away the thick powder of palace poems and gives people a clear, ethereal and natural feeling.
His poems are exquisite in description, harmonious in syllables, beautiful and elegant, and rich in emotion, which plays an important role in the transformation of poetic style in the early Tang Dynasty. However, influenced by the gentle poetic style of the Six Dynasties, it often reveals the feeling of impermanence in life.
There are many scattered poems, and there are only two poems in the whole Tang Dynasty. One of them is "A Moonlit Night on a Spring River", which is a masterpiece through the ages and has the reputation of "one poem overwhelms the whole Tang Dynasty"; Wen Yiduo commented that "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" is "a poem among poems, a peak among peaks". Another poem is Answer My Boudoir Dream.
In the Tang Dynasty, there seemed to be no poems handed down from generation to generation. From the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang's "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" was almost neglected. According to the textual research of Mr. Cheng, a literary historian, there are ten kinds of Tang poems, Miscellanies of Tang People.
His poems are not found in the anthologies of Tang poems such as Selected Poems of Hundred Schools, Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty and Tang Yin of Yuan Dynasty. Not only is the Selected Poems of Tang Poetry not included, but it is also not mentioned in more than 20 kinds of poems from Tang Dynasty to Ming Dynasty.
Guo Maoqian's Yuefu Poetry (Volume 47) was the first to include his Poems on the Spring River, and * * included five poems on the same topic, including one by Zhang.
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, ancient and modern poems were selected, including Zhang's Riverside Poem, three selected books by Xie and Gui in the Wanli period, Seven-character Ancient Poems and Poems in Cang, and Tang Shi Classic in the late Ming Dynasty.