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Chang Jian was a Tang dynasty poet from Chang'an, active during the High Tang period. He passed the imperial examination but did not achieve great official prominence, and he later lived a life associated with travel and reclusion. Few of his poems survive, but they are known for quietness, clarity, and a refined feeling for mountains, temples, and retreat. "Inscribed at the Meditation Courtyard Behind Poshan Temple" is his representative work and one of the classic Tang poems of landscape and Buddhist stillness. The couplet "A winding path leads to a secluded place; the meditation rooms lie deep among flowers and trees" became especially famous.