Wang Jian (, 766?–831?) was a Chinese poet of the
Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom ...
. One of his poems is included in the famous anthology ''
Three Hundred Tang Poems
The ''Three Hundred Tang Poems'' () is an anthology of poems from the Chinese Tang dynasty (618–907). It was first compiled around 1763 by Sun Zhu (1722–1778Yu, 64–65), who was a Qing Dynasty scholar and was also known as Hengtang Tuishi ...
''.
Biography
Wang Jian was born around 766.
He died around 831.
Poetry
Wang Jian had one poem collected in ''Three Hundred Tang Poems'', which was translated by
Witter Bynner
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as "A Bride". He was also known to write in the rare six-syllable line, which is characterized by the presence of two
caesuras
300px, An example of a caesura in modern western music notation
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per line, dividing each line into three parts of two syllables each.
[Frankel, 153]
One of Wang's poems was adapted in the
Tune of Li Zhongtang by
Li Hongzhang
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for use as an unofficial national anthem in 1896, (the 22nd year of
Guangxu) during a diplomatic visit to
western Europe
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and
Russia
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.
Notes
Works cited
* Frankel, Hans H. (1978). ''The Flowering Plum and the Palace Lady''. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press)
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* Watson, Burton (1971). ''CHINESE LYRICISM: Shih Poetry from the Second to the Twelfth Century''. New York: Columbia University Press.
See also
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Geng (dish)
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External links
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*Books of the ''
Quan Tangshi
(''Complete Tang Poems'') is the largest collection of Tang poetry, containing some 49,000 lyric poems by more than twenty-two hundred poets. In 1705, it was commissioned at the direction of the Qing dynasty Kangxi Emperor and published unde ...
'' that include collected poems of Wang Jian at the
Chinese Text Project
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Three Hundred Tang Poems poets
760s births
830 deaths
Politicians from Xuchang
Poets from Henan
Tang dynasty politicians from Henan
8th-century Chinese poets
9th-century Chinese poets
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