Background
Cui Hao was born in Biànzhōu (汴州 present day Kaifeng) and passed the imperial examinations in 723.
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Cui Hao was born in Biànzhōu (汴州 present day Kaifeng) and passed the imperial examinations in 723.
He is known to have traveled extensively as an official, particularly between the years 723-744. He was known for three poetry topic - women, frontier outposts, and natural scenery. His life was initially conventional.
Along with Wang Wei, he was one of the perfectors of the jintishi form.
Later, however, he acquired a reputation for disreputable personal behaviour and passed through several marriages. His later verse is similarly unconstrained.
A famous poem of his is the Yellow Crane Tower. Which is one of the four of his poems included in the Three Hundred Tang anthology, written in seven-character-per-line regulated verse, and which was later translated into English by Witter Bynner as "THE YELLOW CRANE TERRACE".