His talent is full of details, his personality is dashing and full of romantic feelings, and his poems are quite windy, especially the seven masterpieces, which can be called gods. The brilliant Tang Dynasty poetry circle glowed with strange colors because of his joining, and the scenery of the side plugs, the boudoir resentment, and the parting idleness all seemed to have a different taste.
Wang Changling (698-756): Zi Shaobo, poet of the Sheng Tang Dynasty. Because he once served as Jiang Ningcheng and Long Biao, he was also known as the poet's master Wang Jiangning and Wang Longbiao. He is good at the Seven Words, and is known as the "Seven Sacred Hands" by posterity.
Wang Changling was born in Jinyang, Hedong (Taiyuan, Shanxi) to a farming family, during the time of Wu Zetian. Although his family conditions are not favorable, he can still receive education and gradually grow up in half farming and half reading. Around the age of 23, Wang Changling went to Songshan to learn Taoism for a period of time, which is different from the Taoist doctrine that most people only believe in after middle age.
At the age of 26, Wang Changling roamed around Hedong and Luzhou. The next year, he went to Helong and Yumenguan, came to Biansai, and touched the scenery and wrote a large number of Biansai poems.
Wang Changling only decided to take the imperial examination at the age of 30, and in the Tang Dynasty, where the admission rate of talents was extremely low, Wang Changling was fortunate to pass the jinshi examination and was awarded the secretary of the provincial school secretary. Wang Changling was not satisfied with this, and 4 years later, he went to take the Erudite MacroCircles Examination, and the result was another exam. Although the section was smooth, the official field was not proud, but from the school secretary Lang to the lieutenant of Henan Fenshui County, almost at the same level, all of them were Jiupin officials.
In 738, when Wang Changling was 41 years old, he was convicted of something and was demoted to Lingnan, which was equivalent to exile. Fortunately, he was pardoned the following year, and on his way back to the north, Wang Changling met Li Bai, who was 3 years younger than himself, in Baling (Yueyang). The two sides were in a similar mood, and Wang Changling also gave a poem to Li Bai, entitled "Baling Sends Li XII", which has a sentence that reads" "The mountain chief does not see the autumn city color, and the sun is twilight and the water and clouds are empty", expressing the loneliness in his heart and his reluctance to leave Li Bai.
After bidding farewell to Li Bai, Wang Changling continued to return to the north, and when passing through Xiangyang, he made a special trip to visit Meng Haoran, who was 9 years older than himself, when Meng Haoran was suffering from back gangrene for several years and was about to recover. Perhaps because the guests and hosts were too happy to see each other, drinking happily, coupled with some seafood food, Meng Haoran actually relapsed from the old disease and died soon after. Wang Changling did not expect things to become so bad, on the one hand, he felt Meng Haoran's sincerity to his friend, on the other hand, he was afraid that it was more self-blame and pain.
Soon, the imperial court appointed Wang Changling as Jiangning County Commandery, the same rank as the previous county lieutenant. Since his debut, Wang Changling has been in the official field for more than ten years, from the first position to the last position, it is actually a level, which is very rare. In the face of his own encounters, the talented Wang Changling was naturally not satisfied, coupled with these years of experience and experience in the official field, Wang Changling was also uninterested in Jiang Ningcheng's position. From Chang'an to Jiangning, he was slow to report, during which he stayed in Luoyang for half a year, or drank and feasted, or met friends with poetry, and went on outings with poets such as Qi Wuqian and Li Ji. It was not easy to get to Jiangning, but also passive slack, three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, but also ran to Taihu Lake, Zhejiang area to play. This childish approach is naturally given to others and has been criticized a lot. In the face of all kinds of attacks, Wang Changling's relatives and friends could not help but worry. In order to comfort them, When Wang Changling bid farewell to his friend Xin Wan, he wrote a poem to show his heart: Luoyang relatives and friends asked each other, a piece of ice heart in the jade pot.
During this period, Wang Changling also had contacts with Wang Wei and Cen Shan, who once gave the poem "Send Wang Dachangling to Jiangning".
At the age of 51, Wang Changling was not promoted to a position, but was demoted to the rank of Captain Long Biao. Longbiao is a county under the jurisdiction of Guizhou, the location is very remote, And the reason why Wang Changling was degraded was also because of the poems he wrote. It is said that during his tenure in Jiangning, he somehow offended his uncle Yang Guozhong, who found Wang Changling's "Pear Blossom Endowment" and said that Wang Changling used praises of the whiteness of pear blossoms to satirize the corruption of the imperial court. When Li Linfu, the chancellor of the dynasty, turned out the "Long Letter complaint" that Wang Changling had once written, saying that sentences such as "The jade face is not as good as the jackdaw color, it is like bringing the shadow of the sun of Zhaoyang" and other sentences, indicating that Wang Changling has a grudge against the imperial court and so on, and wants to put Wang Changling to death. When Tang Xuanzong found out, he said: The mistake of looking at Changling ends with not protecting the details, and it should not be punished with a heavy punishment. Wang Changling was then demoted to the rank of Captain Of the Dragon. Li Baiqi was in Yangzhou at the time, and after learning the news, he specially wrote a poem "Wen Wang Changling Left Migration Dragon BiaoYao Has This Mail", expressing sympathy and concern for Wang Changling. Among them, sentences such as "I send my sorrow and the bright moon, follow the king until the night Langxi" have become famous sentences that express friendship throughout the ages.
After being degraded, Wang Changling traced the river from Jiangning to Longbiao, stopped by the Wuhu Nanling Tomb, and gave the poem "To nanling to answer the Emperor's Emperor's Yue" and so on.
After the Outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang entered Shu, and the crown prince Li Heng ascended the throne in Lingwu, Ningxia in 756, in favor of Emperor Suzong of Tang. Faced with the chaotic situation in the world, Wang Changling left Longbiao, crossed Chenxi, passed through Wuling, went to the Jiangdong area, and then prepared to transfer to Bozhou to his hometown of Taiyuan, only to be killed by Shi Luqiuxiao, the assassin of Bozhou, on the grounds of "returning to his hometown at the time of sword and fire", which means that he left his post and returned home privately when the war was raging.
At that time, most people were upset about Wang Changling, believing that Lu Qiuxiao had killed innocents indiscriminately because he was jealous of Xian's ability. The following year, the chancellor Zhang Hao was ordered to quell the Anshi Rebellion, and in order to relieve the siege of Song Prefecture (Shangqiu, Henan), Bozhou assassinated Shi Luqiu Xiao to lead troops to rescue. Lu Qiuxiao did not move, causing Song Prefecture to fall. Zhang Hao then sentenced Lu Qiuxiao to death for the crime of misleading the military plane, and during the execution, Lu Qiuxiao begged to let him have a way to live on the grounds that there were elderly people in need of support, and Zhang Hao rebuked him: "Wang Changling's relatives, who do you want to raise?!" "So he beheaded him."
Some people disputed Wang Changling's claim that he left his post and returned home. It is said that at that time, the Taiyuan area was occupied by an An Shi rebels, and Wang Changling had a hard time returning home. Wang Changling was actually preparing to defect to Li Xuan, the Yong King, who was recruiting troops and buying horses in the Jiangdong area, and Li Bai was also in the Li Xuan shogunate at the time. Disobeying his brother Li Heng's unauthorized accession to the throne, Li Xun dispatched troops to tour the east, and finally clashed with the imperial court, where he was defeated and killed. Li Bai was also imprisoned for this incident.
In any case, the death of 59-year-old Wang Changling suddenly dimmed the light of the Tang Dynasty poetry circle a lot.