Poetry

Wang Wan was attracted by mountains and lakes in Jiangnan and influenced by the delicate style of poetry at that time. So he wrote some works to chant the beautiful mountains and lakes.

A Mooring Under North Fort Hill

This poem was praised highly by the dignitary and became the model of many scholars to learn from. The spectacles this poem expressed also made deep impression on the Tang poetry. We can also see the poem in the Chinese textbook of grade seven. What』s more, Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, quoted the poem in the lecture of Cambridge University.

生平

王灣是玄宗先天元年（712年）或二年（713年）進士。進士登第前後幾年，他遊歷江南和湖南，與武平一有往來，《次北固山下》可能就作于此時。

開元初，任滎陽主簿。開元五年，時任秘書監的馬懷素上書唐玄宗，請求修輯勘校內庫舊書等散亂書籍，廣採天下異本，歷經五年，馬懷素死後又由元行衝接手掌管此事，到開元九年（721年）編成《群書四部錄》。王灣也是參與秘書監校理群籍工作的二十六人之一。 至開元十七年（729年），王灣仍在朝廷宮中任職，但任何官職已不可考。此後，王灣出任洛陽尉。開元中期逝世。

王灣一生交友較密的大多是比他年輕的詩人，如王維、李頎、高適等人。

《全唐詩》存其詩十首。

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