王湾
唐
Wang Wan was a Tang dynasty poet from Luoyang, active in the early High Tang period. Little is known about his life. He passed the imperial examination and served in official posts, but only a small number of his poems survive. His reputation rests mainly on "Stopping Below Mount Beigu," one of the classic five-character regulated poems of travel and homesickness. The couplet "The sun over the sea is born from the remaining night; spring on the river enters the old year" has long been admired for its elegant parallelism, expansive vision, and profound sense of temporal renewal.