Wang Wei was born in the royal family of Hedong, and won the first prize in 73 1 in the 19th year of Kaiyuan. Li Guan right gleaned, supervised the remonstrance, and made our time in Hexi. During the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei worshipped the official department as a doctor and servant. When An Lushan captured Chang 'an, Wang Wei was forced to take a false post. After Chang 'an was recovered, he was accused of granting Prince Zhongyun. In the first year of Tang Suzong's rule, he was appointed as a senior minister, so he was called "Wang Youcheng".
In the second year of Shang Dynasty (76 1), Wang Wei died.
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Wang Wei's achievements in poetry are various, including frontier poems, landscape poems, metrical poems and quatrains. Whether it's the grandeur of famous mountains and rivers, the grandeur of frontier blockades or the quietness of small bridges and flowing water, he can accurately and concisely create a perfect and vivid image, with little ink, high artistic conception and complete integration of poetry and painting.
His poems were called by Su Shi as "paintings in poems and poems in paintings". He really has his unique attainments in describing natural scenery.
Wang Wei is a representative of poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Today, there are more than 400 poems, including Acacia and Autumn Night in the Deep Mountains. Wang Wei is proficient in Buddhism and is greatly influenced by Zen. Buddhism has a Vimalakīrti Jing, which is the origin of Wang Wei's name and ci. Wang Wei's poems, paintings and calligraphy are very famous, very versatile and proficient in music. Together with Meng Haoran, they are called "Wang Meng".
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Wei