崔颢 (Cuī Hào) · Cui Hao, Tang dynasty poet

Meanings

1 Cui Hao
2 Tang dynasty poet
3 author of the famous poem 《黄鹤楼》 'Yellow Crane Tower'

About Cui Hao

c. 704–754 · 诗人 poet

Tang poet remembered above all for 《黄鹤楼》 (Yellow Crane Tower), which later critics ranked the finest seven-character regulated verse of the Tang. A story says 李白 read it on the tower and would not write his own.

Characters

white, bright (given name)

Examples

HSK 4

崔颢的《黄鹤楼》是唐诗中的名篇。

Cuī Hào de 《 Huánghèlóu 》 shì Tángshī zhōng de míngpiān.

Cui Hao's 'Yellow Crane Tower' is a famous piece of Tang poetry.

HSK 6

据说李白看到崔颢的诗后说：‘眼前有景道不得，崔颢题诗在上头。’

Jùshuō Lǐ Bái kàndào Cuī Hào de shī hòu shuō: ' yǎnqián yǒu jǐng dào bùdé, Cuī Hào tí shī zài shàngtou. '

It's said that after seeing Cui Hao's poem, Li Bai remarked: 'A scene before me, but I cannot speak it - Cui Hao has already inscribed his poem above.'

Tips

history

He came from 汴州, today's Kaifeng. The critic who ranked the poem first among Tang seven-character regulated verse was 严羽 of the Song, and 李白 wrote his own 《登金陵凤凰台》 in imitation of it.

culture

The opening lines, 昔人已乘黄鹤去，此地空余黄鹤楼 ('the man of old has ridden the yellow crane away, leaving only the empty Yellow Crane Tower'), are among the most quoted in Chinese poetry.