王之涣 (Wáng Zhīhuàn) · Wang Zhihuan, Tang dynasty poet

Meanings

1 Wang Zhihuan, Tang dynasty poet

About Wang Zhihuan

688–742 · 诗人 poet

Tang poet of whom only six poems survive. Children learn his 登鹳雀楼, whose last line, 更上一层楼, now means to go one step further, and his 凉州词 is as widely known.

Also called 季凌

Characters

particle common in given names

涣

huàn

to melt away; to scatter

Examples

HSK 5

王之涣是唐朝的诗人，只有六首诗流传下来。

Wáng Zhīhuàn shì Tángcháo de shīrén, zhǐyǒu liù shǒu shī liúchuán xiàlai.

Wang Zhihuan was a Tang poet; only six of his poems have come down to us.

HSK 7-9

“欲穷千里目，更上一层楼”出自王之涣的《登鹳雀楼》。

" Yù qióng qiān lǐ mù, gèngshàngyìcénglóu " chūzì Wáng Zhīhuàn de 《 Dēng Guànquèlóu 》.

'To see a thousand li further, climb one more storey' comes from Wang Zhihuan's 'Climbing Stork Tower'.

Tips

culture

A Tang anecdote has him, 王昌龄 and 高适 betting in a wine house on whose poems the singing girls would choose. The loveliest of them sang his 《凉州词》, which begins with the Yellow River climbing into the white clouds.

history

鹳雀楼, 'Stork Tower', was named for the storks that roosted on it. It stood at 蒲州, in today's Shanxi, above the 黄河; the old tower burned in the 1220s, and the one visitors climb today is a concrete copy opened in 2002.