Tang poet of hills and farmland who never held office. Nearly every Chinese child can recite his 春晓 (春眠不觉晓), and his friend 李白 wrote a famous poem seeing him off.
Tang poet (689–740) from Xiangyang, famous for pastoral and landscape verse (山水田园诗). Unlike most peers, he never held a government post. His most recited poem is 《春晓》 ('Spring Dawn').
