The wild fruits in the mountains fall in the autumn rain, and the insects in the grass hum under the lamp. From: "Sitting Alone on an Autumn Night" by Wang Wei Tang. "Sitting Alone on an Autumn Night" is a five-rhyme poem composed by Wang Wei, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The first couplet of this poem describes the poet's thoughtful and sad expression and artistic conception: On a rainy autumn night, in silence and no one, the poet sat alone in an empty hall and thought hard. The jaw couplet closely follows the first couplet and uses the method of complementing the virtual and the real to describe the desolation of the environment. The last two couplets describe awakening and learning Buddhism: all things are born and must perish. Only nature is eternal, while humans and all things are temporary.
Wang Wei (701-761, some say 699-761), whose courtesy name was Mojie, and whose name was Mojie layman. A native of Puzhou, Hedong (now Yuncheng, Shanxi), his ancestral home is Qi County, Shanxi. Tang Dynasty poet and painter. Wang Wei was born in the Wang family in Hedong. In the ninth year of Kaiyuan (721) of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he became a Jinshi and became Tai Lecheng. Li Guanyou collected relics, censored the censor, and made the judge during the Hexi Festival. During the Tianbao period, he paid homage to the official doctor and gave him the title of Shizhong. When An Lushan captured Chang'an, he was forced to accept a pseudo post. After Chang'an was recovered, he was awarded the title of Prince Zhongyun. During the Qianyuan period of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, he served as Shangshu Youcheng, and was known as "Wang Youcheng" in his later life.