Hanshan (birth and death years unknown), courtesy name and pseudonym unknown, was a native of Chang’an (now Xi’an, Shaanxi) during the Tang Dynasty. Born into an official family, he failed in many imperial examinations and later became a monk. After the age of 30, he lived in seclusion in Mount Tiantai in eastern Zhejiang and lived to be over 100 years old. Yan Zhenfei’s “Study on Hanshanzi’s Life” uses a large amount of historical materials such as “Northern History” and “Book of Sui” and Hanshan’s poems to verify that Hanshan was Yang Wen, the son of Yang Zan, a descendant of the Sui royal family. Due to jealousy and exclusion in the royal family and the influence of Buddhist thought, he became a monk and lived in seclusion in the cold rocks of Mount Tiantai, calling himself Hanshan.
寒山（生卒年不详），字、号均不详，唐代长安（今陕西西安）人。出身于官宦人家，多次投考不第，后出家，三十岁后隐居于浙东天台山，享年一百多岁。严振非《寒山子身世考》中更以《北史》、《隋书》等大量史料与寒山诗相印证，指出寒山乃为隋皇室后裔杨瓒之子杨温，因遭皇室内的妒忌与排挤及佛教思想影响而遁入空门，隐于天台山寒岩，自号寒山。
《桃花欲经夏》 寒山
桃花欲经夏，风月催不待。
访觅汉时人，能无一个在。
朝朝花迁落，岁岁人移改。
今日扬尘处，昔时为大海。
Burial
Han Shan
Peach blossoms yearn for a summer’s life,
Shivering before a slight breeze, paling
In each descent of the moon. Of all the ancients,
Not one wakes when a bough stirs.
Leaves of my book curl, and the edges brown
In the fire that livens my mother’s ashes.
When I stumble my feet raise dust
Where once the greenest sea rolled.
