Wang Changling Biography | Poet

Wang Changling (traditional Chinese : ; simplified Chinese : ; pinyin : Wáng Changlíng ) (698–756) was a major Tang Dynasty poet. His zi was Shaobo (Chinese : ). 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 posting to Sishui, in what is currently Xingyang, in Henan province. Near the end of his life he was appointed as a minister of Jiangning county. He died in the An Lushan Rebellion.