709–785), often read and Romanized as Liu Changqing,[a] courtesy name Wenfang (文房), was a Chinese poet and politician during the Tang dynasty.

[4] Different sources place the year of Liu Zhangqing's birth as early as 709 and as late as 726.

Although his ancestral hometown was Hejian, he spent most of his youth in Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Tang dynasty.

[c] During his lifetime, Liu's poems did not receive much praise, although he was one of the representative poets during the reign of Emperor Dezong.

過雨看松色，   A pine grown greener with the rain; 隨山到水源，   A brook that comes from a mountain source – 溪花與禪意，   And, mingling with Truth among the flowers, 相對亦忘言。   I have forgotten what to say.