The Seven Masters - Wang Changling; the Great Wall of Five Characters - Liu Changqing.
1. Wang Changling
Wang Changling (698-757), courtesy name Shaobo, Han nationality, was born in Jinyang, Hedong (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), and also said to be from Jingzhao Chang'an (now Xi'an) )people. A famous frontier poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Wang Changling was poor in his early years and mainly relied on farming to maintain his livelihood. He passed the Jinshi title when he was about 30 years old. He first served as secretary and provincial school secretary, and then served as Bo Xue Hong Ci and Sishui Lieutenant. He was demoted to Lingnan due to some affairs. At the end of Kaiyuan, he returned to Chang'an and was granted the title of Jiang Ningcheng. He was slandered and relegated to Long Biaowei. An Shi rebellion broke out and he was killed by the governor Lu Qiu Xiao.
Wang Changling had close contacts with Li Bai, Gao Shi, Wang Wei, Wang Zhihuan, Cen Shen and others. His poems are famous for his seven unique poems, especially the frontier fortress poems he wrote when he went to the northwest frontier fortress before ascending to the throne. He is known as the "poet master Wang Jiangning" and is also known as the "sage of seven unique poems" by future generations. Wang Changling's poems are dense and clear in thought. He is as famous as Gao Shi and Wang Zhihuan. He was called Wang Jiangning at that time. There are six volumes of collected works and four volumes of poems today.
2. Liu Changqing
Liu Changqing (709-789), courtesy name Wenfang, Han nationality, a native of Xuancheng (now Anhui), was a poet of the Tang Dynasty. Later he moved to Luoyang, where he became the county commander in Hejian (now part of Hebei Province). He was a Jinshi during the Tianbao reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.
Zhong Suzong served as a supervisory censor in Germany, a county lieutenant in Changzhou, Suzhou, and a magistrate in the middle of Daizong Dali. After being transferred to Huaixi and Eyue, he was falsely accused and demoted to the Sima of Muzhou. . He was relegated twice because of his stubbornness. During the Jianzhong period of Dezong, he was appointed governor of Suizhou and was known as Liusuizhou in the world.
The year of Liu Changqing’s birth and death is uncertain. The opinions of various famous experts are very different, and the dispute is very fierce. It is generally believed that he was born between 709-725 AD and died between 786-790 AD. Liu Changqing specializes in poetry and is good at five-character poems. He calls himself the "Five-character Great Wall".
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1. Wang Changling - Qijue in Beauty
There are only seventy-seven poems in the early Tang Dynasty, and there are 472 poems in the flourishing Tang Dynasty. Wang Changling composed seventy-four poems, accounting for almost one-sixth. Wang Changling was older among the poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and he wrote Qijue earlier. He was one of the earliest poets in the Tang Dynasty who wrote a large number of Qijue and achieved outstanding achievements. He became famous because of Qijue.
Due to the efforts of him and Li Bai and others, Qijue gradually became a popular genre in the Tang Dynasty, so he is as famous as Li Bai in terms of Qijue. The number of Qijue in the middle and late Tang Dynasty is second only to the Wulu. It can be seen that from Qijue to Wang Changling, the system was established and the expression techniques were fully mature, which had a great influence on future generations.
2. Liu Changqing——Gongyu Wuyan
Changqing, courtesy name Wenfang, was born in Hejian. He lived in Songshan for a short time to study, and later moved to Poyang for the longest time. In the 21st year of Kaiyuan, Xu Zheng ranked first. When he arrived in Dezhong, he supervised the imperial censor and appointed Wai Lang, a member of the inspection and ancestral temple department, as the transfer envoy judge. He learned that Huaixi and Yue were transferred to the rear. The observation envoy Wu Zhongru made a false accusation, but the crime was not committed in Gusu Prison. After a long time, he was demoted to Nanba Wei in Panzhou. There will be people who can argue and move Sima Muzhou.
He eventually became the governor of Suizhou. Changqing was the most talented person in the Qing Dynasty. He was quite popular, had a strong personality, and often disobeyed the powerful family. Therefore, he was moved and reviled by both parties, and everyone felt that he was wronged. The poem is elegant and smooth, and can be refined and decorated. His self-confidence, hurt without resentment, is enough to show his elegance. Quan Deyu called it the "Five Character Great Wall".
Chang Qing once said: "Today's people are called Shen, Song, Wang, and Du in the front, and Qian, Lang, Liu, and Li in the back. How can Li Jiayou and Lang Shiyuan be together with me?" Each poem is not The surname is written as "Chang Qing", which means that everyone in the world knows his name. Baling Bijian has its own business. This collection of poems and essays has been handed down from generation to generation. Li Mu from Huainan was a man of outstanding talent and the son-in-law of the Duke.
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