Meng Jiao (751-814), a poet of the Tang Dynasty in China. His courtesy name was Dongye, a native of Wukang, Huzhou (now Deqing, Zhejiang), and a grandson of Meng Haoran. When I was poor in my early years, I traveled to the two lakes and Guangxi, but met nowhere and failed despite repeated attempts. He became a Jinshi at the age of 46, and became a captain of Liyang at the age of 50. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, he was engaged in land and water transportation in Henan, tried Xie Lvlang, and settled in Luoyang. In the ninth year of Yuanhe, he died of a sudden illness in Quexiang (now Lingbao, Henan). Zhang Ji's private posthumous title is Mr. Zhenyao. There are more than 500 existing poems, most of which are short five-character ancient poems, and there is not a single rhythmic poem. His representative works include "Wandering Son Yin". The 10-volume version of the "Collected Poems of Meng Dongye" published today was compiled by Song Minqiu of the Northern Song Dynasty. The Shu version of the Northern Song Dynasty collected by Huang Pilie is no longer available. "Sibu Congkan" is a photocopy of Hangzhou Ye's Zangming Hongzhi Ben. In 1959, the People's Literature Publishing House published Hua Chen's edited "Collected Poems of Meng Dongye", with a chronology and a collection of Meng Jiao's events at the end. The annotations include Chen Yanjie's "Annotations on Meng Dongye's Poems" and Xia Jingguan's selected annotations on "Meng Jiao's Poems". For deeds, please refer to Han Yu's "Mr. Zhen Yao's Epitaph", the new and old "Tang Shu" biographies, Xia Jingguan's "Mr. Meng Dongye Chronicle", and Hua Chen's "Tang Mengjiao Chronicle".
Meng Jiao’s ancestral home is Pingchang (now northeast of Linyi, Shandong). He lived in Luoyang (now part of Henan) for his ancestors. His father, Tingbin (the second son of Meng Haoran), was born in the suburbs when he was the captain of Kunshan County. When Zhang Jianfeng was guarding Xuzhou in the Zhenyuan Dynasty, Meng Jiao went to see him. At the age of 46 (some say 45 years old), he first became a Jinshi and wrote the poem "After Admission". Then he returned east and visited Bianzhou (now Kaifeng, Henan) and Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). In the seventeenth year of Zhenyuan (801), he was appointed Liyang Wei. While he was in office, he did not engage in Cao affairs and often enjoyed composing poems. He was fined half his salary. Han Yu called him "Sour and Cold Liyang Lieutenant". People in the Tang Dynasty believed that Meng's poetry was a kind of "Yuanhe style", "Yuanhe style has come after", and "learning and correction began in Mengjiao". At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Wei wrote "Poet's Host and Guest Picture", describing him as "a strange, strange and suffering person". Song poets Mei Yaochen and Xie Ao, and Qing poets Hu Tianyou, Jiang Shi, and Xu Chengyao were all influenced by him in their writing. Both Mengjiao and Jiadao are famous for their bitter chants and many bitter words. Su Shi called it "Jiao Handao thin", and later commentators named Meng Jiao and Jia Dao as representative poets. When Shen Deqian commented on Meng Jiao's poems, he said: "Meng Dong's wild poems come from "Wind" and "Sao", and their special imagery is solitary and majestic." It would be miserable if he was defeated." In addition, Han Yu is famous for his prose, and he is sometimes known as "Meng Shi and Han Bi". Yuan Haowen even mocked him as a "poetry prisoner". Li Guan said in "Book of Supplements with Liang Su": "The five-character poems in the suburbs are unparalleled in ancient times, and they are low in level.
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