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Chinese poetry

Poetical art developed in China

73 dated entries naming Chinese poetry, drawn from 71 separate years between 385 CE and 1685 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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4th century

  • 385Xie Lingyun, Chinese poet of the Southern and Northern Dynasties (died 433)source

5th century

  • 427Tao Qian, Chinese poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (born 365)source
  • 433Xie Lingyun, Chinese poet of the Southern and Northern dynasties (born 385)source

7th century

  • 650Shen Quanqi, Chinese poet and official (approximate date)source
  • 684Luo Binwang, Chinese poet and officialsource
  • 688Wang Zhihuan, Chinese poet (died 742)source
  • 698Wang Changling, Chinese poet and official (died 756)source
  • 699Wang Wei, Chinese poet (died 759)source

8th century

  • 701May 19 – Li Bai (or Li Po), Chinese poet (died 762)source
  • 702Chen Zi'ang, Chinese poet and official of the Tang dynasty (born 661)source
  • 704Cui Hao, Chinese poet (died 754)source
  • 709Liu Zhangqing, Chinese poet (died 785)source
  • 729Shen Quanqi, Chinese poet and official (born 650)source
  • 742Li Bai (also Li Po), Chinese poet, is summoned by Xuan Zong to attend the imperial court. He and his friend Du Fu become the two most prominent figures in the flourishing of Chinese poetry, during the mid-Tang dynasty.source
  • 742Wang Zhihuan, Chinese poet (born 688)source
  • 744Autumn – Li Bai (also Li Po), Chinese poet and skilled calligrapher, meets Du Fu for the first time.source
  • 745China has accomplishments in poetry, painting and printing, but its monarchical system tends toward failure. Emperor Xuan Zong has fallen under the spell of his son's wife Yang Guifei (one of the Four Beauties of Ancient China), a Taoist priestess. He is ignoring the economy and the Tang dynasty is declining.source
  • 747Li Shizhi, chancellor and poet of the Tang dynastysource
  • 751Meng Jiao, Chinese poet (died 814)source
  • 757December 8 – Du Fu, Chinese poet, returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuan Zong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.source
  • 759Wang Wei, Chinese poet (born 699)source
  • 762Li Bai, (also Li Po), Chinese poet (born 701)source
  • 766Zhang Ji, Chinese scholar and poet (approximate date)source
  • 768Han Yu, Chinese philosopher and poet (died 824)source
  • 772Bai Juyi, Chinese poet and official (died 846)source
  • 773Liu Zongyuan, Chinese poet and official (died 819)source
  • 776Bai Xingjian, Chinese poet and writer (died 826)source
  • 779Jia Dao, Chinese poet and Buddhist monk (died 843)source
  • 785Liu Changqing, Chinese poet (born 709)source
  • 796Lü Dongbin, Chinese scholar and poetsource

9th century

  • 803Du Mu, Chinese poet and official (died 852)source
  • 812Wen Tingyun, Chinese poet and lyricist (died 870)source
  • 813Li Shangyin, Chinese official and poet (died 858)source
  • 814Meng Jiao, Chinese poet (born 751)source
  • 819Liu Zongyuan, Chinese poet and official (born 773)source
  • 820Song Ruoxin, Chinese scholar and poet (born 768)source
  • 824Chen Tao, Chinese poet (died 882)source
  • 826Bai Xingjian, Chinese poet and writer (born 776)source
  • 830Wang Jian, Chinese poet (approximate date)source
  • 832Guanxiu, Chinese Buddhist monk and poet (died 912)source
  • 832Xue Tao, Chinese poet (born 768)source
  • 833Luo Yin, Chinese statesman and poet (died 910)source
  • 834Pi Rixiu, Chinese poet (approximate date)source
  • 835Lu Tong, Chinese poet (born 790)source
  • 836Wei Zhuang, Chinese poet (approximate date)source
  • 842Liu Yuxi, Chinese poet and philosopher (born 772)source
  • 843Jia Dao, Chinese poet and Buddhist monk (born 779)source
  • 844Yu Xuanji, Chinese poet (approximate date)source
  • 846Du Xunhe, Chinese poet (died 904)source
  • 852Du Mu, Chinese poet and official (born 803)source
  • 858Li Shangyin, Chinese official and poetsource
  • 868Yu Xuanji, Chinese poet (or 869)source
  • 869Yu Xuanji, Chinese poet (or 868)source
  • 870Wen Tingyun, Chinese poet and lyricist (born 812)source

10th century

  • 904Du Xunhe, Chinese poet (born 846)source
  • 909Luo Yin, Chinese statesman and poet (born 833)source
  • 910January 26 – Luo Yin, Chinese statesman and poetsource
  • 930Zhang Mi, Chinese Ci lyric poet (died unknown)source
  • 954Wang Yucheng, Chinese official and poet (died 1001)source
  • 967Lin Bu, Chinese poet and calligrapher (died 1028)source
  • 991Yan Shu, Chinese statesman and poet (died 1055)source

11th century

  • 1007Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and poet (died 1072)source
  • 1012Cai Xiang, Chinese calligrapher, official and poet (died 1067)source
  • 1028Lin Bu (or Junfu), Chinese poet and calligrapher (born 967)source
  • 1067Cai Xiang, Chinese calligrapher and poet (born 1012)source
  • 1072September 22 – Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and poet (born 1007)source
  • 1077Ye Mengde, Chinese scholar, minister and poet (died 1148)source
  • 1084Li Qingzhao, Chinese female poet and writersource
  • 1085Zhu Bian, Chinese diplomat, poet and writer (died 1144)source
  • 1090Qin Guan, Chinese poet of the Song dynasty, writes the Can Shu (Book of Sericulture), which describes a silk-reeling machine that has the world's oldest known mechanical belt drive.source

12th century

  • 1101August 24 – Su Shi, Chinese statesman and poet (born 1037)source
  • 1127October 29 – Yang Wanli, Chinese politician and poet (died 1206)source

17th century

  • 1685July 1 – Nalan Xingde (born 1655), Chinese Qing Dynasty poet most famous for his ci poetrysource

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