张籍

Zhang Ji was a poet of the Tang dynasty. Public sources offer limited information about him, and details such as his courtesy name, native place, and dates of birth and death are not recorded in this database. The collection currently includes 12 of his works, among them "To a Monk from Haidong," "Autumn Mountains," "Seeing Off Minister Pei on His Way to Taiyuan," "Viewing Flowers at Tangchang Abbey," "Staying Overnight at Heizao Creek," "Matching Secretary Yan's Poem on Hearing of the Jade at Tangchang Abbey," and "Yuefu Songs: Song of the White-Haired One." Their subjects range from poetic exchanges and farewells to landscape travel, visits to Daoist abbeys, and yuefu song lyrics. These works show a poet who conveys feeling through scenes of parting and travel, with compressed language and refined imagery that combine narrative and lyric qualities; his yuefu pieces also reflect an interest in folk tunes and ancient titles. Zhang Ji's poems are commonly read within classical poetry and literary appreciation, and their traces of Chan thought and reflections on life also touch on Eastern philosophy and culture, giving them some value for the reading and study of Tang poetry.