Wang Yuyan - Wang Yuyan

A poet from the Northern Song Dynasty in China. His courtesy name was Yuanzhi. He was from Jizhou (Shandong Province). He is said to be the son of a flour miller and was of low social standing. He passed the imperial examination and became a bureaucrat, making him an early example of a typical Song scholar-official. He died when he was the governor of Jizhou (Hubei Province). At the time, the unique poetry of the Song Dynasty had not yet been born, but he studied Du Fu for five-character poetry and Bai Juyi for seven-character poetry. Although he was said to be weak and calm, he combined intelligence and social criticism with a calm and unpretentious style, becoming a pioneer of the Song Dynasty's style of poetry. He wrote the 30 volumes of Xiao Chishu and the 7 volumes of Tongwaishu.

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中国、北宋(ほくそう)の詩人。字(あざな)は元之。済(せい)州（山東省）の人。粉ひき業者の子といわれる低い身分から、科挙を経て官僚となった経歴は、宋代士大夫の典型の早い例である。蘄(き)州（湖北省）の長官になったときに死亡した。当時、宋代独自の詩は生まれていなかったなかで、彼は五言は杜甫(とほ)を学び、七言は白居易を学んで、平弱といわれながらも、平静淡泊ななかに知性と社会批判とを盛り込んで、宋詩の風気の先駆けとなった。『小畜集』30巻、同外集7巻がある。

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