Zhang Jiuling
Zhang Jiuling

Zhang Jiuling (simplified Chinese: 张九龄 pinyin: Zhāng Jiǔlíng) (678 or 673-740), courtesy name Zishou (子壽), nickname Bowu (博物), formally Count Wenxian of Shixing (始興文獻伯), was a prominent minister, noted poet and scholar of the Tang Dynasty, serving as chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong.

Zhang Jiuling Famous Poems

    • ○ Climbing a Tall Building on an Autumn Evening: I Gaze to Where the South River Touches the Shih-hsing Road (秋晚登楼望南江入始兴郡路)
      "By Zhang Jiuling"
    • ○ The Moon Rose From the Sea (望月怀远)
      "Zhang Jiuling's Wang Yue Huai Yuan (望月怀远)—translated as The Moon Rose From the Sea—opens with one of the most spatially expansive couplets in Tang regulated verse: Hai shang sheng ming yue, tian ya gong ci shi. (海上生明月，天涯共此时。…"
    • ○ After you left me for your dream (赋得自君之出矣)
      "This poem is a work in the ancient style by the High Tang poet Zhang Jiuling, written from a woman's perspective to express feelings of longing, full of tender emotion and melancholic beauty. Zhang Jiuling, styled Zishou, was a native of Quj…"
    • ○ ORCHID AND orANGE II (感遇其四)
      "Five-character-ancient-verseComposed around 739 CE after Zhang Jiuling's demotion to Chief Secretary of Jingzhou, this poem reflects the political climate where Emperor Xuanzong favored sycophants like Li Linfu over principled officials. Dra…"
    • ○ THOUGHTS III (感遇其三)
      "Five-character-ancient-verseIt is better to express one’s feelings in a poem than to be direct. Being direct will often get you into hot water. This was true for Zhang Jiuling."
    • ○ ANGE I (感遇其二)
      "Five-character-ancient-verseComposed during the late Kaiyuan era of Emperor Xuanzong's reign, when court politics grew increasingly corrupt, this poem was written after Zhang Jiuling's demotion to Military Governor of Jingzhou due to Li Linf…"
    • ○ THOUGHTS I (感遇其一)
      "Five-character-ancient-verse"
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