Wang Zhizhuo lived in the Tang Dynasty through Wu Zetian, Li Xian, Li Dan, and Li Longji, which was the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty at that time. Wang Zhizhuo, Together with Gao Shi, Cen Shan, and Wang Changling, were known as the Four Poets of Biansai, he was a person with a very good poetic name at that time. The difference between Wang Zhizhuo and them is that he has not been a high official, and he has not participated in the imperial examination in his life, so how did Wang Zhizhuo die in the end?
A brief biography of Wang Zhizhuo
Wang Zhizhuo ( Chinese : 王之涣 ; pinyin : 王之涣 ; 王之涣 ; written in the Tang Dynasty , was a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty , who was extravagant , often singing with Gao Shi and Wang Changling , and was famous for describing the scenery of Biansai , whose poems were processed into songs by musicians. There is not much surviving information on Wang Zhizhuo's life, and we infer from his epitaph that Wang Zhizhuo died in 742 at the age of 55, so he should have been born in 688 AD.
Wang Zhizhuo was born in the Taiyuan Wang clan, a famous and prestigious family, and from him to the top five generations were officials at that time. Wang Zhizhuo ranked fourth in the family, from a young age smart and studious, growing up to 20 years old, the article was well written, and Wang Zhizhuo liked to do chivalry and righteousness in his youth, often fencing and singing. It was not until middle age that he began to humbly seek advice and concentrate on writing poetry, and after a dozen years the poetry name was Dazhen, and soon after he was in the main book of Hengshui County in Jizhou, but he was framed, and Wang Zhizhuo resigned his official and returned home in anger.
At that time, Wang Zhizhuo's poems can be said to depict the magnificent mountains and rivers of the Tang Dynasty, but now only 6 of his works have been handed down, which are included in the Quan Tang Poetry. Wang Zhizhuo did not take the road of examination in his life, and his parents had died when he became an official, after resigning from the official position of The Lord of Hengshui, he lived idly at home for 15 years, and under the persuasion of relatives and friends, he re-entered the army, known as a clean official, and was praised by the local people, but he contracted an illness in Wen'an County and has been bedridden ever since.
Li's marriage to Wang Zhizhuo must have been poured out for the talent of this talented man, and the relationship between the two was very affectionate, which became a good story at that time. Wang Zhizhuo lived idly at home for 15 years, Li Zhizhuo was poor and happy, and followed Wang Zhizhuo for 15 years, but there was no complaint, but Li was widowed less than 40 years later, and Li also died of illness 6 years after Wang Zhizhuo's death, because he had an ex-wife, and the two could not be buried together. Wang Zhizhuo's life is rarely recorded in the historical records, and our descendants do not know much about his life, but the 6 poems he left behind let us see that the fame of this talented man is not empty.