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Wang Changling (698 -757), a native of Jinyang, Hedong (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), was a frontier poet and minister in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. In the 15th year of Kaiyuan (727), he was a scholar in Wang Changling and served as secretary of provincial studies. In the twenty-second year of Kaiyuan (734), I should study again.
Awarded the county commandant of Surabaya (now Surabaya Town, Xingyang, Henan). In the twenty-seventh year (739), he was relegated to Lingnan. The following year, he returned to Chang 'an from Lingnan North and South, and served as the county magistrate of Jiangning (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) in winter. After a few years in Jiangning, he was slandered to destroy the country and was demoted to the county magistrate of Longbiao (now Qianyang, Hunan). Since the Anshi Rebellion, Wang Changling was demoted to Jiangning and later killed by Qiu Xiao, the secretariat of Haozhou.
Wang Changling's poetic realm is vigorous, open and unique. In the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shizhen thought that only Wang Changling could compete with Li Bai, which was listed as a "miracle". Wang Changling's frontier poems are generous and heroic, magnificent and of high style, and he has created a large number of frontier poems. Later, Wang Changling was called the founder and pioneer of frontier poems.
He has the reputation of "Poet King Jiangning" and is also praised as "Seven Wonders" by later generations. Wang Changling's poems are dense and clear, as well as Gao Shi and Wang Zhihuan. He has six volumes of anthology and four volumes of poetry. The main representative works are Join the Army, Out of the Fortress and Always in My Heart.
Summary of achievements
There are 18 1 poems in Wang Changling. The genre is mainly composed of five ancient poems and seven quatrains, and the themes are mainly parting, frontier fortress and palace resentment. Wang Changling's poems are not as good as those of Li Bai, Du Fu, Gao Shi and Cen Can, but his poems are of high quality. Frontier poems can be compared with Gao Shi and Cen Can, but after three or four outstanding poets, there are almost no frontier poems.
After Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty changed the system of officers and men to the system of recruiting soldiers, scholars set off an upsurge of joining the army and frontier fortress. In the 13th year of Kaiyuan, Wang Changling roamed the northwest frontier, deeply experienced frontier life and wrote a lot of frontier poems. At this time, Cen Can 1 1 year-old, Gao Shi had not yet started frontier life. Later generations called Wang Changling the founder and pioneer of frontier fortress poetry.
Wang Changling's frontier poems are good at capturing typical scenes, with high generalization and rich expressive force. It not only reflects the main theme of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but also describes the frontier fortress scenery and frontier fortress battlefield scenes in detail, and captures the delicate inner world of soldiers. His poems have broad artistic conception.
The language is mellow and meaningful, and the tone is euphemistic and harmonious, which is thought-provoking. He has high attainments in lyricism, landscaping and freehand brushwork. Wang Changling's poems about palace grievances can be compared with Li Bai's, and they are unique in profound meaning, wonderful scenery, sharp contrast and strange language creation.
In Poems in My Heart, Wang Changling always describes the feelings and sorrows of the concubines who have been imprisoned in the deep palace for a long time with the spirit of compassion, shows their life and emotional world in many ways with delicate brushwork, reveals their tragic fate under the cruel court funeral system, and objectively criticizes the evil of feudal society that destroyed women.
This ideological tendency laid a healthy foundation for his works, washed away the blasphemy of court poems in the Six Dynasties, and effectively reversed the bad writing style of Qi and Liang. On the other hand, as far as artistic expression is concerned, Wang Changling carried forward the gorgeous and exquisite expression techniques of the Six Dynasties and inherited its formal beauty. Therefore, Wang Changling is considered to be the first person who successfully wrote a seven-character quatrain poem.