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Wang Ling
Northern Song poet, courtesy name Fengyuan, from Yuancheng in Daming and a resident of Guangling; a friend of Wang Anshi, he died aged only twenty-eight and left the Guangling Xiansheng Wenji.
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Fengyuan · Originally named Zhongmei
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Wang Ling, first named Zhongmei, courtesy name Fengyuan, came from Yuancheng in Daming and lived mainly in Guangling (modern Yangzhou). A Northern Song poet and friend of Wang Anshi, he wrote vigorous verse that often dwells on the hardships of ordinary people, and his poem on the scorching drought is in the Qianjia Shi. He died in 1059 aged only twenty-eight; Wang Anshi wrote his epitaph, and his writings survive as the Guangling Xiansheng Wenji.
Life and times
Dates 1032–1059 CE