Meng Haoran (Chinese: 孟浩然; Wade–Giles: Meng Hao-jan; 689/691–740) was a major Tang dynasty poet, and a somewhat older contemporary of Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu.
Meng Haoran is often bracketed with Wang Wei, due to the friendship they shared and their prominence as landscape poets. Meng's poetic language was as simple as everyday conversation, yet this simplicity did not diminish their careful craftsmanship.
Meng's quatrain "Spring Morning" (春曉) is one of the best known Tang poems, partly due to its inclusion as the opening piece of the Qian-Jia Shi (Poems of a Thousand Masters), a beginner's anthology of verses widely adopted in elementary curriculum since the late Song dynasty.
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