Meng Haoran, a famous pastoral poet in Tang Dynasty, was praised as "Meng Xiangyang" by the world. Because he has never been an official, he is also called Monsanto. In his early years, he was interested in using the world. After experiencing the hardships and pains of his career, he can still respect himself, be good, practice for life, and retire after success. Once lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain. Traveling to Chang 'an at the age of 40 should be promoted by Jinshi.
Meng Jiao lived in Luoyang (now Luoyang, Henan Province) and lived in seclusion in Songshan when he was young. Meng Jiao made two attempts to become a scholar. He was a scholar at the age of forty-six, and once served as a county commandant in Liyang. Unable to realize his ambition, he wandered among fairies and wrote poems.
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The poetic school represented by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran formed in the prosperous Tang Dynasty is also called pastoral school. In order to highlight its outstanding role in the pastoral poetry school, later generations also called it "Wang Meng Poetry School". This school is as long as the poems of Tao Yuanming and Schell (Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao), with pastoral scenery and secluded life as the main theme, and its style dilutes nature.
Meng Haoran's poems got rid of the narrow realm of chanting things in the early Tang Dynasty, expressed more personal hugs, brought fresh breath to Kaiyuan poetry circle, and won people's admiration at that time. Meng Haoran was the first poet who wrote landscape poems in the Tang Dynasty and the forerunner of Wang Wei. His travels are vividly described, and Dongting Lake's letter to Premier Zhang is magnificent.