Zhāng Ruòxū píng yì shǒu 《 Chūnjiāng huā yuè yè 》, chéngwéi le Tángdài zuì yǒumíng de shīrén zhīyī.
With a single poem, A Moonlit Night on the Spring River, Zhang Ruoxu became one of the best-known Tang poets.
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Later readers summed up his fame as 孤篇压全唐, 'one poem that outweighs all of Tang'. Its 36 lines move from the tide and the rising moon to questions about time, then to lovers apart under the same moon.
history
He came from Yangzhou and was one of the Four Gentlemen of Wu, with 贺知章 and the calligrapher 张旭.
