He (about 659-744), whose real name is Ji Zhen, was born in Yongxing, Yuezhou (now Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province), and was named "Siming" and "Secretary's Foreign Supervisor" in his later years. Poets and calligraphers in Tang Dynasty.
Representative works include "Singing Willow" and "A Book of Two Hometowns".
He's poems are famous for quatrains. In addition to offering sacrifices to the gods and writing poems, his lyrical style of scenery writing is unique, leisurely, light and tasteful.
The greatest success of his poems lies in reflecting and expressing the most essential things in social life, that is, human feelings and humanity, and writing a kind of emotion unique to human beings, such as two couples returning home.
He inherited and carried forward Chen Ziang's spirit of praising "Wei-Jin style", pursuing "Bi Xing" and promoting "human nature", boldly broke through the paradigm of object-chanting poetry advocated and practiced by Li Qiao in the early Tang Dynasty, and wrote a well-known immortal poem "Singing Willow".
Because of the affluent life, smooth official career and open-minded personality, there is no lament for cynicism and sad life experience in his poems. Even if disappointed, his tone is optimistic and open-minded, and his style is elegant, fresh and natural.
He's poems are natural and vivid in feelings, unpretentious in language and unpretentious in carving. They come from life, from the bottom of my heart and have far-reaching artistic conception.