Wang Wei’s most artistic poems are as follows:
Red beans grow in the south, and a few branches sprout when spring comes. ——"Acacia"
The sweet-scented osmanthus falls when people are idle, the night is quiet and the spring mountains are empty. ——"Birdsong Stream"
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Wang Wei (693 or 694 or 701-761), courtesy name Mojie, nicknamed Mojie layman, Hedong A native of Puzhou (now Yuncheng, Shanxi), his ancestral home is Qi County, Shanxi. Tang Dynasty poet and painter.
Born from the Wang family in Hedong, a branch of the Wang family in Taiyuan, he passed the imperial examination in the 19th year of Kaiyuan (731). He served as an official of Youshi, a censor of supervision, and a judge of Hexi Jiedushi. During the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei paid homage to the official doctor and gave him a job. When An Lushan captured Chang'an, he was forced to accept a pseudo post. After Chang'an was recovered, Wang Wei was appointed Prince Zhongyun, and later promoted to Shangshu Youcheng. Wang Wei died in July of the second year of Shangyuan (761) at the age of sixty-one.
Wang Wei not only studied Zen to understand philosophy and studied Taoism, he was also proficient in poetry, calligraphy, painting, music, etc. His poems flourished in the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years, especially in five words, and mostly chanted about mountains, rivers and pastoral areas, and were related to poetry. Meng Haoran is collectively known as "Wang Meng" and is known as the "Poetry Buddha". His calligraphy and painting were so exquisite that later generations regarded him as the "ancestor of Nanzong landscape painting".
Su Shi commented on him: "When you taste Mojie's poems, there are paintings in the poems; when you look at Mojie's paintings, there are poems in the paintings." He also has more than 400 poems in existence, and his representative works include "Lovesickness" and "Mountain Residence". "Autumn Ming", etc., and also wrote works such as "The Collection of Wang Youcheng" and "The Secret of Painting".
His talent showed early. Wang Wei was born in Puzhou (today's Yongji, Shanxi) during the period of Wu Zetian. He was extremely smart when he was young, and his talents showed early. In the third year of Kaiyuan (715) of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei left home and went to the capital, hoping to be recommended by dignitaries. Because he could write good poems, was good at calligraphy and painting, and was talented in music, he immediately became the favorite of the princes and nobles of the capital as soon as he arrived in the capital.
Wang Wei's literary achievements are mainly reflected in his poetry creation. Wang Wei's poems depicting natural scenery such as mountains, rivers and pastoral areas, and praising secluded life, depict shadows and forms, which are expressive and expressive, and have both form and spirit. With his fresh, distant, natural and refined style, Wang Wei created an artistic conception of "painting in poetry, poetry in painting" and "Zen in poetry", setting up a banner in the poetry world.