His family was relatively poor. He was a scholar in the fifteenth year of Kaiyuan and was awarded the post of secretary of the provincial school. In the twenty-second year of Kaiyuan (734), Wang Changling chose erudite macro-words, which was superior to others, so he was appointed as the county commandant of surabaya county, and later moved to Jiangning.
In the autumn of the 25th year of Kaiyuan, he was found guilty and exiled to Lingnan.
In the 28th year of Kaiyuan (740), Wang Changling returned to the north and traveled to Xiangyang to meet the famous poet Meng Haoran. Meng Haoran suffered from gangrene and recovered quickly. They were very happy after meeting. Meng Haoran died because he drank too much and had a relapse. During this period, Wang Changling met Li Bai, a great poet, with the poem "Ba Ling Send Li Twelve". It is a great pleasure for Wang Changling to meet such first-class poets as Meng Haoran and Li Bai. Unfortunately, meeting Meng Haoran became a permanent tactic, and meeting Li Bai was all downhill. Li Baizheng was exiled to Yelang at that time.
In the winter of the 28th year of Kaiyuan (740), Wang Changling left Beijing for Jiangning. At this time, he met the famous poet Cen Can. Cen Can has a poem "Send Wang Changling to Jiangning", and Wang Changling also has a poem to leave. When I passed by Luoyang, I also made friends with poets such as Qian and others, and they also had poems.
As an outstanding poet, Wang Changling has few handed down materials. In addition to being demoted to Lingnan mentioned above, I was demoted, and the exact time and reason are not clear. Some people think that I spent six years in Tianbao. "Biography of Zhan Caizi" said that he "paid no attention to the details in the later part of his journey, slandered and boiled, and fled to the wild." "He Yueling's Photo Album" said that he was "returning to the wild", and the old Tang book also said that he was "careless and often relegated" and was demoted as a dragon watch captain.
What is more tragic is that Wang Changling later failed to keep a small position like Long Biaowei, left his post without permission and went to Bozhou, where he was killed by Lu Qiuxiao's secretariat. "Biography of the Talented in the Tang Dynasty" said: Wang Changling "returned to his hometown with a sword and fire, and was killed because of the taboo of Lu Qiuxiao, the secretariat. Later, Zhang Gao marched to Henan and was going to be slaughtered at dawn, saying that he would kiss the old and beg for forgiveness. He said,' Who can support Wang Changling's personal desire?' The dawn faded away. "Zhang Gao, who has always sympathized with the poet, finally avenged Wang Changling.
Wang Changling was a famous poet in Tang Dynasty. At that time, he was very famous and was called "the poet king Jiangning". Because the name of the poem was written earlier, I made many friends with the famous poets at that time, and the friendship was very deep. In addition to the above-mentioned friends with Li Bai and Meng Haoran, I also made friends with Gao Shi, Yun,,, Wang Zhihuan, Wang Wei, Chu Guangxi and Chang Jian. He was demoted several times, living in remote Lingnan and Xiangxi, traveling to and from the economically developed Central Plains and Southeast China, to the northwest frontier, and even to the area of Broken Leaves (now Kyrgyzstan). Because of his rich life experience and extensive friends, it is of great benefit to his poetry creation. Wang Changling is good at seven-character quatrains, and he is called the seven-line master by later generations. For example, the poem "Out of the Great Wall" wrote: "The moon passed through Qin, and the Long March people did not return. But make Longcheng fly, and don't teach Huma to cross Yinshan. " Lamenting the incompetence, broad artistic conception, deep feelings and boldness of vision of the garrison commander is indeed a treasure in ancient poetry and is hailed as a masterpiece of the Tang Dynasty. Another example is Joining the Army, which is also a well-known masterpiece. Funeral march and Song of Picking Lotus reflect the unfortunate experiences of ladies-in-waiting, which are delicate and vivid, fresh and beautiful, with a sad style and superior artistic conception, and express the feelings of missing women and the innocence of girls. Farewell work "Lotus Inn and Xin Jian Parting" is also a masterpiece through the ages. Shen Deqian's "Three Hundred Tang Poems" said: "The Dragon Label is a quatrain, full of affection and bitterness, with vague meaning, unpredictable and endless aftertaste."
Yan Qiuxiao killed Wang Changling because he was jealous of talented people, which really destroyed China's ancient poetry and was a sinner of the Chinese nation forever.
Scholar evaluation:
Wang Changling was a famous poet in Tang Dynasty. Yin Kun's "He Yueling Photo Album" regards him as a representative of "character" and praises his poems as "excellent works of rejuvenation", and the number of poems selected is also the highest in the complete works. All these can be seen from his position in poetry.
The evaluation of Changling's poems in Complete Tang Poetry is "dense and clear-minded", and his seven-line poems are particularly outstanding, even comparable to Li Bai, so they are crowned as "the seven-line holy hand". In particular, his frontier poems are fluent and uplifting, and are highly praised by later generations.
The source of frontier poems can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. There are quite a lot of frontier poems in The Book of Songs (such as Xiaoya Driving and June). ). The frontier poems in the Tang Dynasty reached its peak, with nearly 2,000 poems, reaching the sum of frontier poems in previous dynasties. The frontier poetry school with Gao Shi and Cen as the main body and Wang Changling as the representative is an important school of romanticism. Their frontier fortress works show the heroic pride of galloping on the battlefield and making achievements, express the patriotic thought of generously joining the army and resisting enemy aggression, and also describe the strange and magnificent scenery in the northwest. At the same time, it also reflects the bitterness of finding a husband and thinking of a woman and the hardships of soldiers, as well as the contradictions between nations and between generals and foot soldiers. Frontier poems reflect the reality of all aspects of war in this era and produce many excellent poems.
Wang Changling's frontier poems fully embody his patriotism and heroism, and also profoundly contain the poet's humanistic concern for the lower class, which embodies the poet's broad vision and broad mind. Wang Changling is good at using scenes to express his feelings, and integrates scenes in his writing style. This is the most commonly used structure in frontier poems, but the poet has broadened his horizons outside this situation with the simplest skills, and condensed his eternal thinking throughout time and space in the most plain theme; The most representative is Out of the Great Wall (bright moon in Qin dynasty, custom in Han dynasty).
Wang Changling's Journey to the Western Regions should have been written in his early years, and Journey to the Western Regions is an old topic in Yuefu. Wang Changling lived in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. During this period, the Tang Dynasty won many foreign wars, and the confidence of the whole nation was extremely strong. Therefore, the works of frontier fortress poets can reflect an impassioned upward spirit and strong confidence in defeating the enemy. At the same time, frequent border wars also make people feel overwhelmed and long for peace, and "Out of the fortress" reflects people's desire for peace.