Wang Shen (Song dynasty)

Wang Shen
File:Monts en rangs serrés au dessus d'une rivière embrumée par Wang Shen.jpg "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.

See also

• Classical Chinese poetry
• Crow Terrace Poetry Trial
• Emperor Shenzong of Song
• Huang Tingjian
• Li Cheng (painter)
• Mi Fu
• Su Shi
• Xiaoxiang poetry

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.