Wang Shen (Song dynasty)

Wang Shen
"Misty River, Layered Peaks", by Wang Shen.
Poet and author of Song dynasty
Born	c. 1036
Died	c. 1093
Names
Traditional Chinese	王詵
Simplified Chinese	王诜
Pinyin	Wáng Shēn
Courtesy name	晋卿

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.

Wang Shen was a Chinese poet, painter, and calligrapher (Murck, 126-156). He is very well known as a painter, with some surviving paintings. He is also a poet, with some surviving verses.

Early life

Wang Shen was from Taiyuan city, in Shanxi.

Painting

Further information: Shanshui

Wang Shen was an accomplished landscape painter in the Chinese tradition.

Poetry

Although less remembered as a poet than a painter, Wang Shen traded rhymes with Su Shi, one of the most renowned poets of the Song dynastic era, if not all time.

References

Murck, Alfreda (2000). Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent. Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London: Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute. ISBN 0-674-00782-4.

Chinese poetry

Major eras	Classical Chinese poetry Modern Chinese poetry

Poetry by dynasty	Han poetry Jian'an poetry Six Dynasties poetry Tang poetry Song poetry Yuan poetry Ming poetry Qing poetry

Poetry works and collections	Classic of Poetry Chu Ci New Songs from the Jade Terrace Nineteen Old Poems Quan Tangshi Three Hundred Tang Poems Wangchuan ji Wen Xuan Zhuying ji

Major forms	ci fu shi qu yuefu

Individual poems list	Chinese poems (category list) List of poems (article)

Modern compilations	Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature

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Wang Shen (Song dynasty)

Early life

Painting

Poetry

See also

References