He is a householder of Mahayana Buddhism, a famous bodhisattva at home, and a well-known clean and pollution-free person. It can be seen that Wang Wei's name has an indissoluble bond with Buddhism. Before Wang Wei's death, people thought that he was a "contemporary poet who was good at Zen." After his death, he got the title of "Shi Fo". Wang Wei was born in a devout Buddhist family. According to Wang Wei's "Please Make Shizhuang a Temple Appearance", "Cui Shi, the late mother of Boling County, was a master and photographed more than 30 Buddhist monks." In Volume 25, there is an article "Taming, the Daoguang Zen Master of Dade in Dajianfu", which talks about the relationship between the poet and the Daoguang Zen Master, a famous contemporary monk, and says, "Sit for ten years." Visible Wang Wei. According to "Old Tang Book", "In the capital, I spent quite a long time in Zhai, and I was taught not to wear clothes. I want to measure emptiness with tiny details, and I have nothing to do with it. I just want to focus on the relics. " More than a dozen monks, such as Cai, enjoy private conversations every day. They have nothing but a teapot and a mortar in the lent and are tied to the bed. After retiring from the DPRK, he burned incense and sat alone, taking Zen as his career. "This time, Wang Wei is like a monk. Wang Wei had a literary talent when he was a teenager. In the ninth year of Kaiyuan (72 1), he was the first scholar, and he was very happy. I joined the army in Jeju for some reason. After returning to Chang 'an. In the 22nd year of Kaiyuan (734), Zhang Jiuling was appointed as the secretariat. Wang Wei was demoted to the right. At that time, he wrote a poem "Dedicating the Beginning to Prosper the People", praising Zhang Jiuling's political views against planting party member for personal gain and abusing his title, which reflected his mood of demanding at that time. Twenty-four years (736), Zhang Jiuling went on strike. The following year, Jingzhou was relegated to a long history. Li's appointment as the secretariat is a turning point in Xuanzong's politics from relatively clear to increasingly dark. Wang Wei was depressed about Zhang Jiuling's demotion, but he didn't quit the officialdom. In the 25th year of Kaiyuan, he was ordered to visit Cui, our envoy from Hexi. Later, he learned from the temple history that Wang Wei's official position was gradually promoted. Before the Anshi Rebellion, on the one hand, officials were tired and worried about the officialdom at that time, on the other hand, they were attached to the stack and could not leave decisively. So when in Rome, do as the Romans do, and live a semi-official and semi-secluded life for a long time.
Wang Wei's poetry and painting (1 1) Wang Wei's achievements in poetry are various, including frontier poems, landscape poems, metrical poems and quatrains. 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. Whether it is the grandeur of famous mountains and rivers, the grandeur of frontier blockades, or the quietness of small bridges and flowing water, it can accurately and concisely create a perfect and vivid image, with less pen and ink, high artistic conception and complete integration of poetry and painting. Landscape pastoral poetry school is one of the two major poetry schools in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. This school of poetry is the successor of Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao. The poets of this school are famous for their good description of landscapes and pastoral scenery, and their artistic styles are relatively close. They reflect their peaceful mind or secluded thoughts by depicting quiet scenery, so they are called "the school of landscape pastoral poetry". The main writers are Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, Chang Jian, Zuyong, Pei Di and others. Among them, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, also known as "Wang Meng", have the highest achievements and the greatest influence.