Wang Changling (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wang Changling (Chinese: pinyin: Wang Ch ngling, 698-765) was a major Tang Dynasty poet. 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 of the Sishui county ( ) in what is currently 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.