Cháng Jiàn 常建 (fl. ca. 727–760)
High-Táng shānshuǐ tiányuán poet. Zì unknown; jíguàn (native place) unknown. Jìnshì of Kāiyuán 15 (727). The only attested office in his career was Xūyí wèi 盱眙尉 (county-level law-enforcement assistant of Xūyí in modern Jiāngsū) — whence the poets called him Cháng wèi 常尉. The Sìkù tíyào of KR4c0024 explicitly notes that the standard biographical sources have nothing more to say about him.
His relative biographical anonymity is itself part of his literary identity: he is read by Yīn Fán 殷璠 (the Héyuè yīnglíng jí 河嶽英靈集 anthologist, Tiānbǎo period) as a yǒngbǔ 詠補 figure, the talented man unjustly relegated to obscurity in the manner of Liú Zhēn 劉楨 and Bào Zhào 鮑照. His extant collection is the Cháng Jiàn shī KR4c0024 in 3 juǎn (Míng Máo Jǐn re-arrangement of an originally 1-juǎn Sòng text). His most-quoted single piece is the Tí Pòshān sì hòu chányuàn 題破山寺後禪院, with its iconic couplet qūjìng tōng yōuchù, chánfáng huāmù shēn 曲徑通幽處禪房花木深 — much imitated by Sòng-period poets (Ōuyáng Xiū tried for a long time to match it, by his own admission). CBDB has no fixed dates for him.