They are: Wang Changling, Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Bai Juyi, and Li He.

1. Wang Changling:

(1) Wang Changling (698-757), courtesy name Shaobo, Han nationality, from Jinyang, Hedong (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), also said to be the capital of Chang'an People (today's Xi'an). A famous frontier poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

(2) Wang Changling was poor in his early years and mainly relied on farming to maintain his livelihood. He became a Jinshi when he was about 30 years old. He first served as secretary and provincial school secretary, and then served as Bo Xue Hong Ci and Sishui Lieutenant. He was demoted to Lingnan due to some affairs. At the end of Kaiyuan, he returned to Chang'an and was granted the title of Jiang Ningcheng. He was slandered and relegated to Long Biaowei. An Shi rebellion broke out and he was killed by the governor Lu Qiu Xiao.

(3) Wang Changling had close contacts with Li Bai, Gao Shi, Wang Wei, Wang Zhihuan, Cen Shen and others. His poems are famous for his seven unique poems, especially the frontier fortress poems he wrote when he went to the northwest frontier fortress before ascending to the throne. He is known as the "poet master Wang Jiangning" and is also known as the "sage of seven unique poems" by future generations. Wang Changling's poems are dense and clear in thought. He is as famous as Gao Shi and Wang Zhihuan. He was called Wang Jiangning at that time. There are six volumes of collected works and four volumes of poems today.

2. Li Bai

(1) Li Bai (701-762), also known as Taibai, also known as Qinglian Jushi, also known as "Exiled Immortal", was a great romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty A modernist poet, he was hailed as the "Immortal of Poetry" by later generations, and was called "Li Du" together with Du Fu. In order to distinguish him from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, namely "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai were also collectively called "Big Li Du". ".

(2) According to the "New Book of Tang", Li Bai was the ninth grandson of Emperor Xingsheng (Liang Wuzhao King Li Hao) and the same clan as the kings of Li and Tang Dynasties. He is cheerful and generous, loves drinking, writing poetry, and making friends.

(3) Li Bai was deeply influenced by Huang Lao Liezhuang's thoughts. There is "The Collection of Li Taibai" handed down to the world. Most of his poems were written when he was drunk. His representative works include "Wang Lushan Waterfall", "Difficult to Travel", "Shu" "The Road is Difficult", "About to Enter the Wine", "Liang Fu Yin", "Early Departure from Baidi City" and many other songs.

(4) Li Bai’s poems and poems have been recorded in Song Dynasty biographies (such as the first volume of Wen Ying’s Xiangshan Wild Records). In terms of its pioneering significance and artistic achievements, “Li Bai’s Ci” enjoys extremely high status. status.

3. Du Fu

(1) Du Fu (712-770), also known as Shaoling Yelao, also known as Zimei, was a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty, together with Li Bai Called "Li Du". Originally from Xiangyang, Hubei Province, he later moved to Gongxian County, Henan Province. In order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, known as "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also collectively known as "Big Li Du", and Du Fu is often called "Old Du".

(2) When Du Fu was a boy, he traveled to Wuyue and Qi and Zhao successively, during which time he went to Luoyang to take the imperial examination but failed. After the age of thirty-five, he first took the examination in Chang'an and failed; later he presented gifts to the emperor and nobles. Unable to succeed in officialdom, he witnessed with his own eyes the extravagance and social crisis of the upper class society in the Tang Dynasty. In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755), the Anshi Rebellion broke out and Tongguan fell. Du Fu traveled to many places.

(3) In the second year of Qianyuan (759), Du Fu abandoned his official position and went to Sichuan. Although he escaped the war and lived a relatively stable life, he still cared about the people and national affairs. He created famous works such as "Ascend the High", "Spring Look", "Northern Expedition", "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells". Although Du Fu is a realist poet, he also has a wild and uninhibited side. It is not difficult to see Du Fu's heroic spirit from his famous work "Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking".

(4) In the winter of the fifth year of the Dali calendar (770), Du Fu died of illness at the age of fifty-nine. Du Fu had a profound influence on Chinese classical poetry. He was called the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations, and his poems were called the "History of Poetry". Later generations called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu, and also called him Du Shaoling and Du Thatched Cottage.

4. Wang Wei

(1) Wang Wei (701-761, one theory is 699-761), whose courtesy name was Mojie and his nickname was Mojie layman. A native of Puzhou, Hedong (now Yuncheng, Shanxi), his ancestral home is Qi County, Shanxi. Famous poet and painter of Tang Dynasty.

(2) Wang Wei was born in the Wang family in Hedong, and passed the first prize in the 19th year of Kaiyuan (731). Li Guanyou collected relics, censored the censor, and made the judge during the Hexi Festival. During the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei paid homage to the official doctor and gave him a job. When An Lushan captured Chang'an, Wang Wei was forced to take a pseudo-post. After Chang'an was recovered, he was awarded the crown prince Zhongyun. During the Qianyuan period of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, he served as Shangshu Youcheng, and was known as "Wang Youcheng" in his later life.

(3) Wang Wei studied Zen and understood philosophy, studied Zhuang Daoism, and was proficient in poetry, calligraphy, painting, music, etc. He was famous among Kaiyuan and Tianbao for his poems, which were especially long in five words and mostly eulogized about landscapes and pastoral areas. Together with Meng Haoran, he is known as "Wang Meng" and is known as the "Poetry Buddha".

(4) His calligraphy and painting are so exquisite that later generations regard him as the ancestor of Nanzong landscape painting. Su Shi commented on him: "When you taste Mojie's poems, there are paintings in the poems; when you look at Mojie's paintings, there are poems in the paintings." There are more than 400 poems in existence, and representative poems include "Lovesickness", "Mountain Dwelling in the Autumn Twilight" and so on. His works include "The Collection of Wang Youcheng" and "Secrets of Painting".

5. Bai Juyi

(1) Bai Juyi (772-846), whose courtesy name was Letian, also known as Xiangshan Jushi, and also Mr. Zuiyin. His ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi. By the time of his great-grandfather Moved to Xiagui and was born in Xinzheng, Henan. He was a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three major poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen jointly advocated the New Yuefu Movement, known as "Yuan Bai" in the world, and "Liu Bai" together with Liu Yuxi.

(2) Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms, and simple and popular language. He is known as the "Poetry Demon" and the "Poetry King". He became a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and a doctor of Zuo Zanshan. In 846 AD, Bai Juyi died in Luoyang and was buried in Xiangshan. There is "Bai's Changqing Collection" handed down from generation to generation, and his representative poems include "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", "Charcoal Seller", "Pipa Play" and so on.

6. Li He

(1) Li He (about 791 AD - about 817 AD), whose courtesy name is Changji, is "the founder of Changji style poetry." Tang Dynasty A native of Fuchang, Henan (now Yiyang County, Luoyang, Henan), he lived in Changgu, Fuchang, which was later called Li Changgu. He was a member of the Tang clan and a descendant of Li Liang (King Dazheng), the uncle of Li Yuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

(2) Known as the "Poetry Ghost", he is a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty who is as famous as the "Poetry Sage" Du Fu, the "Poetry Immortal" Li Bai and the "Poetry Buddha" Wang Wei. There are famous works such as "Yanmen Taishou's Journey" and "Li Ping Konghou Yin". He is the author of "Changgu Collection".

(3) Li He's poetry is extremely imaginative, and he often uses myths and legends to support the past and present. Therefore, later generations often call him a "ghost" and a "poetry ghost", and his poems are called " The words of ghosts and immortals." There is a saying that "'Taibai is an immortal, Changji is a ghost'. Li He is another famous romantic poet in the history of Chinese literature after Qu Yuan and Li Bai.

(4) Li He Due to long-term depression and sentimentality, and a life of anxiety, he resigned from Fenglilang due to illness in the eighth year of Yuanhe (813) and returned to Changgu. He died young at the age of 27.