Cui Hao (simplified Chinese: 崔颢; traditional Chinese: 崔顥; pinyin: Cuī Hào; Wade–Giles: Ts'ui Hao, 704?–754) was a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty in China and considered a main early exponent of the regulated verse form of Cl*ical Chinese poetry (also known as jintishi).

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Poems
• 3 See also
• 4 Notes
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Biography

Cui Hao was born in Biànzhōu (汴州, present day Kaifeng, Henan) and p*ed the imperial examinations in 723. He is known to have traveled extensively as an official, particularly between the years 723–744. He was known for three poetry topic - women, frontier outposts, and natural scenery. His life was initially conventional; along with Wang Wei, he was one of the perfectors of the jintishi form. Later, however, he acquired a reputation for disreputable personal behaviour and p*ed through several marriages. His later verse is similarly unconstrained.

Poems

Fifteen poems exist on the topic of women and fifteen poems exist on the latter two topics. A famous poem of his is the Yellow Crane Tower; which is one of the four of his poems included in the Three Hundred Tang Poems anthology, written in seven-character-per-line regulated verse, and which was later translated into English by Witter Bynner as "THE YELLOW CRANE TERRACE". Also included in the Tang 300 is a seven-character-per-line regular verse form poem written in the huaigu genre style on his p*age through Huayin, north of Hua Shan, as well as two old or folk style pieces with erotic overtones.

See also

• Poetry of Mao Zedong
• Yellow Crane Tower

Notes

References

• Wan, Jingjun (Chinese: 万竞君; pinyin: Wàn Jìngjūn) 1982. The Annotated Poems of Cui Hao (simplified Chinese: 崔颢诗注; traditional Chinese: 崔顥詩注; pinyin: Cuī Hào Shī Zhù). Shanghai Ancient Books Press (Chinese: 上海古籍出版社; pinyin: Shànghǎi Gǔjí Chūbǎnshè). 54 pages..

External links

• Works by Cui Hao at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)