1. Wang Bo, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.

2. Introduction

Wang Bo (about 650-676), courtesy name Zian, was a Han nationality and a poet of the Tang Dynasty. A native of Longmen, Jiangzhou (today's Hejin, Shanxi), he was born into a Confucian family. He was known as the "Four Heroes of the Early Tang Dynasty" together with Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and King Luo Bin. Wang Bo was the leader of the four heroes. Wang Bo was smart and studious since he was a child. According to the "Old Book of Tang", he was able to write articles at the age of six. His writing was fluent and he was praised as a "child prodigy". When he was nine years old, he read Yan Shi's ancient annotations of "Hanshu" and wrote ten volumes of "Zhixia" to correct his mistakes. At the age of sixteen, Ying Yousu passed the examination and was appointed Chaosan Lang. He was kicked out of Prince Pei's Mansion for doing "Cock Fighting". After that, Wang Bo spent three years touring the mountains and rivers of Bashu and wrote a large number of poems. After returning to Chang'an, he asked Guozhou to join the army. While serving in the army, he was demoted twice for killing an official slave privately. In August of the third year of Shangyuan (676), when he was returning from Jiaozhi to visit his father, he unfortunately crossed the sea and drowned, and died of panic. Wang Bo is good at Wulu and Wujue in poetry genres. His representative works include "Sending Du Shaofu to Shuzhou". His main literary achievement is parallel prose, which is excellent in terms of quantity and quality. His representative works include "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion". wait.

3. Main works

More than 80 of Wang Bo's poems are extant, and more than 90 of them include poems, prefaces, tables, tablets, odes, etc., and 16 of them are extant in "The Collection of Prince An". There are 10 volumes of "Hanshu Zhixia", 5 volumes of "Book of Changes", 10 volumes of "The Analects of Confucius", 5 volumes of "Zhuzhong Compilation Preface", "Thousand Years Calendar", "Taipei Chaolue" (one work is "Taipei Milue" ") 10 articles, "Combined Theory" 10 articles.

4. Character evaluation

The original biography of "Old Book of Tang Dynasty" says that Wang Bo: "He was able to understand Chinese literature at the age of six, and his ideas were flawless and his words were heroic and heroic, similar to his elder brother's talent." Du Yijian, a friend of his father, often called it: "Wang's Three Pearl Tree"

Yang Jiong's "Preface to Wang Bo's Collection": "When I was nine years old, I read Yan's "Han Shu" and wrote "Zhixia" for ten years. Volume. The six classics were compiled at the age of ten, and they were completed by the month of Suspension. They learned from the teachings of Fuyin for a hundred years, and they can be seen in the ancients."

When Zheng Zhenduo talked about the contribution of Wang Bo's poetry to future generations, he said: "Just as the sun god's thousands of rays of light have not yet walked in the east, the east is already filled with the rosy dawn of the goddess of dawn." The goddess of dawn who praised Wang Bo for his poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.