Meng Haoran 孟浩然, peot in the Tang Dynasty
Meng Haoran (孟浩然 689-740), a native of Xiangzhou (now in Xiangyang City of Hubei Province), was a famous poet of the landscape and pastoral school in the Tang Dynasty. Meng Haoran was born as a prosperous Tang Dynasty, because he had never been an official in the dynasty, he was also called " the Person of Meng Hill ".
Meng Haoran was the first poet to write a large numberof landscape and pastoral poems. The existing works of Meng Haoraninclude more than 260 poems, mostly in five-character lines.
MengHaoran's enthusiasm for describing the beautiful landscape of hishometown-Xiangyang-is infectious in poems like To Zhang ,The FifthAmong his Brothers, When Mounting Orchid Mountain on an AutumnDay and A Song of Returning to Deer- Gate Mountain at Night-wherethe mountains, trees, crescent moon and boats appear so familiar andsweet under his pen. In poems full of vitality as Visiting an Old Friend onHis Farm, the simple life of a peasant family, deep feelings between oldfriends and the tranquil and harmonious atmosphere in rural areas, allleave an unforgettable impression in a reader's mind. Some of his shortpoems such as spring Dawn, are also fresh and explicit with a lingeringappeal.
Although Meng Haoran's poetry does not possess a richideological point-of-view as does Wang Wei's poetry, from an aestheticpoint of view, Meng Haoran may be classed with Wang Wei.
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