王之涣

王之涣（688年—742年3月25日），字季凌，行七，并州（山西太原）人，是盛唐时期著名的诗人，其代表作《登鹳雀楼》、《凉州词》皆脍炙人口。

生平

王之涣现存生平资料不多。其家族从晋阳郡迁徙到至绛郡（今山西新绛县）。其父王昱历任鸿胪主簿，雍州司士，汴州浚仪县令，王之涣为其四子，生于武后垂拱二年（688年）。

曾以门子调补冀州衡水主簿，此时其父母均已去世。衡水县令李涤将三女儿许配给他。因被人诬谤，乃拂衣去官，“遂化游青山，灭裂黄绶。夹河数千里，籍其高风；在家十五年，食其旧德。雅谈珪爵，酷嗜闲放。”。期间曾流寓蓟门。后复出担任文安县尉，颇有政绩，于天宝元年二月十四日（742年3月25日）在文安县官府住宅中去世，虚岁五十五，天宝二年五月廿二日（743年6月18日）葬于洛阳北原。

文学评价

王之涣“慷慨有大略，倜傥有异才”，早年精于文章，并善于写诗，多引为歌词，常与王昌龄、高适、崔国辅等诗人互相唱和，名动一时。

他尤善五言诗，以描写边塞风光为胜。他的诗今仅存六首，以《登鹳雀楼》、《出塞》为代表作。章太炎推《凉州词》为“绝句之最”:“黄河远上白云间，一片孤城万仞山。羌笛何须怨杨柳，春风不度玉门关。”

墓志铭

王之涣墓志铭出土的具体时间与地点均未详，估计是在20世纪的二三十年代之间，盗墓者掘出来的，后几经转手卖给了收藏者李根源。现存南京博物院。最早议论此墓志的是章太炎，他在1932年写的《曲石唐志目四跋》中有《王之涣墓志》，以后又有岑仲勉《续贞石证史》、启功《碑帖中的古代文学资料》、傅璇琮《唐代诗人丛考》中的《靳能所作王之涣墓志铭跋》等文。

家庭

夫人

渤海李氏，唐朝青州司马李彦孙女，唐朝冀州衡水县县令李涤第三女，虚龄十八岁嫁给王之涣，天宝七载十一月四日（748年11月28日）在河南县孝水里私人住宅中因病去世，虚岁三十四，天宝七载十一月廿四日（748年12月18日）葬于洛阳北原

其它亲属

王之咸，唐朝诗人，王之涣堂弟，一说为王之涣亲兄。

Wang Zhihuan (traditional Chinese: 王之渙; simplified Chinese: 王之涣; pinyin: Wáng Zhīhuàn; c. 688–742), alternatively transliterated as Wang Tsu-huan, was a Chinese poet of the Kaiyuan era of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. He is best known for his jueju "Climbing Stork Tower" (登鸛雀樓).

Poetry

No collection of Wang's poems seems to have been made. Only six of his poems survive, all of which are quatrains, but almost every one has become a classic.

Two poems were included in the famous poetry anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems, translated by Witter Bynner as "Climbing Stork Tower" (also called "On the Stork Tower" or "At Heron Lodge", a five-character-quatrain) and "Beyond the Border", a folk-song-styled-verse.

Famous competition at the wine shop

Wang Zhihuan was once involved in a famous incident at a wine shop with fellow poets Gao Shi and Wang Changling, in which they agreed to compete as to which of their poems would be most sung by the professional entertainers who happened to show up in the course of that evening's entertainment. Towards the beginning of the evening, one performer happened to sing one of Wang Changling's poems. Not too long after that, another performer sang one of Gao Shi's poems. And, then another performer recited another lyric of Wang Changling's. The performance then went on, with one for Gao Shi, two for Wang Changling, and none for Wang Zhihuan. It so happened that one of the female entertainers known as the most beautiful finally gave her performance: she delivered a piece, based on a poem of Wang Zhihuan's (this was the one, which, much later, Witter Bynner translated as "Beyond the Border").