Abstract:
Distinctive both from such court poets as Yu Shinan and Xu Jingzong and from such official poets as Wei Zheng and Wang Gui in the royal year of Zhenguan, Wang Ji was a poet of individual style in the early Tang Dynasty. His poems were noble in mood and bold in strength, which influenced deeply the poetry reforms of those well-known poets in the early and the prosperous Tang Dynasty, including Chen Zi'ang and Zhang Jiuling. Wang's art of poem writing was directly derived from the group of Shandong poets headed by Lu Sidao and Xue Daoheng who served the North Zhou Dynasty first and then the Sui Dynasty, and his cultural spirit from the Hefen civilization as a branch of Shandong culture. This understanding of the origin of Wang Ji's art of poem writing will path the way for a better interpretation of the distinctions of artistic mechanism and cultural connotation of his poetry.
