Born in this dynasty, Wang Wei left us a quaint and ethereal poetic world with his elegant and calm characteristics in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
It is not enough to look at Wang Wei only from the perspective of a poet. He is also proficient in calligraphy and painting, temperament, guqin and pipa, which makes him a versatile person.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wang Weisu was known as "poetry, calligraphy and painting". In addition, he was influenced by his parents and family and knew Zen since childhood, so his poems, books, paintings and phonology were all integrated into the profound Zen.
Wang Xiaobo said, "It is not enough for a person to have this life. He should also have a poetic world. "
Wang Wei has this poetic world, just like a clean stream. Live a quiet and comfortable life with Ming Che's heart and dust-free Zen mind.
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"Biography of Wang Wei in the New Tang Dynasty" records: "When I was nine years old, I knew that my subordinates were as famous as my brother and were filial friends." It is not difficult to see that Wang Wei has been a kind person since he was a child. He is smart and studious, filial to his parents and takes care of his younger brother.
Congenital conditions are good, and there is a mother who knows how to teach students according to their aptitude. Cui Shi, Wang Wei's mother, is a very enlightened and insightful woman. She not only fulfilled Wang Wei's love of poetry and prose since childhood, but also found that Wang Wei also had great talent in music and painting, so she hired a famous teacher to cultivate it.
Born in a famous family, he was gifted, and received all-round quality education from an early age, catching up with the cultural prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. Wang Wei's ability to compose poems, be good at calligraphy and painting, and be familiar with melody has already explained everything.
Even if you are so talented, it's just a high value. In Ji Yi Ji, it is recorded that "the wonderful years are white and the charm is beautiful", but the face value of talents is online.
Zhong Ling can be beautiful, and the spirit of the earth is to educate outstanding people.
Wang Wei's mother devoted herself to Buddhism and studied the Vimalakīrti Classic all the year round. She followed Vimalakīrti's example all her life and named Wang Wei "Vimalakīrti", which means "clean, dust-free and pollution-free", telling Wang Wei to realize his life realm with a clean and calm heart.
At the age of 9, Wang Wei's father died of a sudden illness. Facing his mother and five young brothers and sisters, he once seemed to grow up overnight. The change of family also made him become the head of the family prematurely, and his youth and maturity also doomed his tenacity and forbearance in his future character.
Accompanied by the surging Yellow River, Wang Wei heard chickens dancing and studied hard. In just a few years, he studied and nourished in the schools of thought, the Three Graves and Five Classics, and the eight kinds of jiusan, and he was deeply involved in ancient music scores, ancient picture books and ancient Copybook for calligraphy.
Wang Wei, a noble teenager, studies hard and is talented. At the age of fifteen, I traveled to Chang 'an and wrote "A Boy's Journey":
A barrel of Xinfeng wine is worth 10,000 yuan, and the ranger with five spirits is a teenager.
When we met, people drank to the spirit of the king, and the horse was tied under the weeping willow in the restaurant.
A man was homesick at the Double Ninth Festival. He touched the hearts of fireworks and mortals all over the world with a song "I miss my brothers in Shandong on vacation in the mountains":
I am a lonely stranger in a strange land, and I miss my family more often during the holidays.
When I think of my brothers' bodies climbing high, I will feel a little regret for not being able to reach me.
Traveling around the world, if you can live a life of fireworks, it is the greatest comfort for a wandering soul. This year, Wang Weinian was only seventeen years old.
At the age of 20, Wang Wei became Tang Youcheng. His articles have long been famous all over the world and recited by everyone in the workshop. Wang Wei's grandfather, Zhou Wang, was a music official in the imperial court. He is good at pipa and all kinds of guqin. Influenced and cultivated by his grandfather since childhood, Wang Wei naturally plays pipa and guqin well.
There is such a story in the biography of Wang Wei in the New Tang Dynasty. Everyone can't guess the title of the picture played by the musicians in "According to Music". Wang Wei took a look and said that the music played by the people in the painting was colorful feathers, so he asked the musicians to play it, which was exactly the same as the music played by the people in the painting.
In 72 1 year, Wang Wei showed his talents in the Angqi Palace in Chang 'an, Tang Dynasty. A song "Yu Lun Bao" surprised Princess Yu Zhen. The princess has never heard of such a beautiful pipa before. After learning that many favorite poems also came from this young man, she strongly recommended Wang Wei to take the imperial examination. Later, Wang Wei won the first place and the first place in Jinshi.
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After winning the first prize, Wang Weizhong passed the routine selection test of the official department. After all this passed smoothly, he got the position of Taylor City, Le Shu in charge of the imperial court. This is a very satisfactory job for Wei Wang, with a fixed salary and the ability to display his talent in music.
I often study music with Li Guinian and other musicians and have a pleasant conversation. After the Anshi Rebellion, Li Guinian lived in the south of the Yangtze River and often sang "A Gift from the River to Li Guinian" written by Wang Wei:
When those red berries come in spring, they flush on your southern branches.
People who want to miss them collect more, and Mix red beans have attracted people's attention.
Wang Wei attaches great importance to feelings and places his thoughts on friends of Red Bean. True water has no fragrance, but it can be tasted as true purity, such as returning to the beauty of nature, not dyeing flowers, and cultivating the beauty of mind and nature.
Wang Wei's talent has been fully demonstrated, and his first half of life was happy, and he gained four happy events in his life: "It's the right time to be the number one scholar after a long drought, to meet an old friend in a foreign land, and to spend a candle in the bridal chamber."
However, thousands of troubles and setbacks have followed, as if destiny takes a hand, God will not give anyone too much.
It was that time that the King of Qi got drunk at the banquet and watched these yellow lion dances that courtiers shouldn't have seen. You know, in the current dynasty, this kind of "yellow" is taboo, and Wang Wei was also present, so they were exiled to Beijing together and went to Jeju as granary guards.
This was undoubtedly a blow to Wang Wei, who was in the limelight at that time, and also made Wei Wang finally realize that officialdom may not belong to him.
After being demoted for three years and waiting for two years, I still can't wait for the appointment of the court. He simply resigned and became a free man. From then on, he studied, wrote poems, painted, played the piano, traveled around the world and lived in seclusion.
Wang Wei thought of the Vimalakīrti Classic, which his mother had been teaching him to recite, and understood that "there is no need to be too persistent in the world, and it is okay to follow the fate, just asking for a clear conscience."
Look at all the joys and sorrows, and look down on right and wrong. Influenced by his mother's subtle influence since childhood, he not only learned a lot about being a man from his mother, but also added Zen and ethereal spirit to his poems and paintings. Even though he saw all the splendor in the world and tasted all the pain in the world, Wang Wei was able to have peace of mind, understand the true meaning of life in the landscape and countryside, and live a peaceful and floating thing in the world.
During this period, Wang Wei created a landscape painting "Yuan An Lying in the Snow", in which Wang Wei deliberately drew a pleasant green banana tree, which stood proudly in the heavy snow. And this banana in the snow has left many famous sayings for future generations, as if telling Wang Wei's persistent pursuit of a suitable life in this life with Zen, taking Yuan 'an as his self-encouragement, and containing lofty aspirations and the will to be poor without losing integrity.
In his paintings, Wang Wei cleverly captured the phrase "like a banana, invincible" in the Vimalakīrti Classic, which means that everything is empty, but it is strengthened by emptiness, which is awesome to thousands of enemies. It is such a lofty realm that "banana in the snow" has become an eternal swan song and artistic embodiment in the history of painting art.
In the later period, Wang Wei painted many pictures of snow-capped mountains, such as Snow Stream Map and Snowfall Map in Jiangshan. Wang Wei's admiration for snow-capped mountains and rivers and his love for nature just symbolize his noble character and distant and calm mind, which is also a hidden infinite Zen machine.
Wang Wei's Snow Flow Map
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Wang Wei deeply penetrated his Zen thoughts into his poems, paintings and calligraphy. Undoubtedly, his spiritual world is rich, and he is a person with deep feelings and single-mindedness.
Wang Wei and his wife were childhood friends. Presumably, the woman should be elegant and beautiful to the extreme, and at the same time, she is a person who knows the way of meditation. She is Wang Wei's confidante and soul mate, which makes her crazy.
However, the happy time is too short. Wang Wei's wife died unfortunately during childbirth. Wang Wei "lost his wife and lived alone for 30 years". At that time, Wang was 3 1 year old, but he kept the habit of "living on vegetables, eating vegetables and not eating meat and blood" all his life. I didn't write a word to my wife, but I gave my wife the deepest love with my lonely life.
I have experienced four joys and sorrows in my life. Losing a father in early years, a wife in middle age, a child in old age and bad officialdom is the best choice.
Buddha said, "I looked back 500 times in my last life just to get a brush in this life." After his wife left, Wang Wei was completely empty to himself, writing poetry, painting and playing the piano in the semi-hidden scenery. "Ill-gotten wealth and wealth are like clouds to me."
It's cool to love only one person in your life.
Therefore, "I will go to the water to stop my path, and then sit and watch Yun Qi", which is probably the most calm portrayal of Wang Wei's heart. For example, when people drink water, they know when they are warm and cold, and when they don't move their Zen words, they get Zen. At the end of my tether, I can still spend a sunny day in Liu Yin. With this realm of life, there is nothing else to ask for.
Wang Wei lived a semi-secluded life in Wangchuan, Zhong Nanshan. Throughout the year, the empty valley, fresh and quiet time just responded to Wang Wei's inadvertently written "moonlight in the pine forest, glittering and translucent stones in the stream". This poem is like a fresh and beautiful landscape painting, as well as a beautiful lyric music, just like the Peach Blossom Garden in Wang Wei's heart. Such a poetic life is really desirable.
"There seems to be no one on the empty mountain, but I think I heard a voice. Sunlight, entering a small forest, reflected from the green moss to me. " ? It seems that there are 3,000 ethereal voices in the poem, and the sound is invisible, and the sound is heard in the empty valley, and the empty valley is empty, the sun shadow is offset, the setting sun is slanting, and the moss is lonely and more silent.
"I was leaning alone in the dense bamboo, playing the piano and humming. The voice is so low that no one can hear it except my partner Mingyue. " The clear light passes through the leaves of the bamboo forest, and the king who plays the piano is in a fairyland. Wang Wei is the heaven and man in this fairyland.
Wang Wei wrote Wangchuan Collection in Wangchuan, and painted the scenery described in the poem on a big wall, which was where his mother often recited the scriptures before her death. Wangchuan Villa is the best commemoration of Wang Wei's pastoral life, which perfectly shows his artistic features in poetry, music, painting and calligraphy. "The valley is gloomy and unkempt, the clouds are full of water, and it is strange to be out of the dust."
Wangchuan Villa is a precedent of paying equal attention to poetry and painting. Wangchuan Villa is the best painter in ancient and modern times. "Wangchuan is a place that can cultivate people's ambition, and its poems and paintings are famous throughout the ages."
Su Shi commented on the cloud: "There are paintings in poetry; Looking at his paintings, there are poems in them, and Qian Zhongshu also regards him as "the first hand in painting in the prosperous Tang Dynasty".
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In 76 1 year, in the second year of last year, 63-year-old Wang Wei sat at his desk, wrote several letters to relatives and friends, and died peacefully with a smile. "Like autumn water, laugh at yourself."
Wang Wei healed his pain in the pastoral landscape, and endowed the landscape with vitality with his own poems and paintings, which are inexhaustible.
His life is like a breeze, coming gracefully and walking calmly. It gives us an ethereal and distant landscape world and creates a poetic world for us.
Slow down the pace of running in the world of mortals, reach your own great realm with the smile of flowers, realize it in the Zen machine of "I will walk until the water stops me, and then sit and watch Yun Qi", and gain inner peace when facing the difficulties of life.
Life is actually a process of constant loss, and it is precisely because of this that life needs this calmness, this inner peace and gentleness.
After the prosperity of the world, I have nothing and am alone. Do not seek glory, wealth, and peace of mind. "Life has never existed for others."