Wang Changling
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Wang Changling (traditional Chinese: 王昌齡; simplified Chinese: 王昌龄; pinyin: Wáng Chānglíng) (698–756) was a major Tang Dynasty poet. His zi was Shaobo (Chinese: 少伯). He was originally from Taiyuan in the Shanxi province of China, according to the editors of the Three Hundred Tang Poems, although other sources claim that he was actually from Jiangning near modern-day Nanjing. After passing the prestigious jinshi examination, he became a secretarial official and later held other imperial positions, including that of an official posting to Sishui (汜水), in what is currently Xingyang, in Henan province. Near the end of his life he was appointed as a minister of Jiangning county. He is best known for his poems describing battles in the frontier regions of western China.
Wang Changling was one of the competitors in the famous wine shop competition along with Gao Shi and Wang Zhihuan.
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- (Three Hundred Tang Poems), Taipei: 三民書局印行, 2001.
- This article incorporates information from this version of the equivalent article on the Chinese Wikipedia.
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