Most of Wang Wei's early poems reflect reality and have a more progressive political tendency. In his later period, he mainly painted pastoral landscapes, which obviously reflected his negative feelings of escaping from reality. Wang Wei was an outstanding poet in the Tang Dynasty, with many artistic talents. He is good at painting and proficient in music, and can integrate painting and music into poetry. Su Shi said in Shu Moran's Poems on Clouds and Rain: "There are pictures in the poems; Look at the picture, there are poems in the picture. "
Mainly Wang Wei's high attainments in poetry and painting.
Among Wang Wei's poems, there are paintings in poems and poems in paintings. His feeling of natural beauty is unique and meticulous. His landscapes are full of charm, slightly exaggerated, long in artistic conception, bright in color and well painted. He writes about the combination of static and dynamic scenery, and is good at showing the changes of light color and sound in nature in detail. His landscape poems, often used in five laws and sentences, are short in length, exquisite in language and soothing in syllables, which are suitable for expressing the quiet landscape and the poet's comfortable mood. Wang Wei is a representative of the pastoral poetry school in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He inherited and carried forward the landscape poems initiated by Xie Lingyun, and was unique, which made the achievements of landscape pastoral poems reach the peak and occupied an important position in the history of China poetry.
Wang Wei also has excellent works in other aspects. There are themes that reflect the life of the army and the frontier fortress, those that praise the chivalrous spirit, and those that expose the shortcomings of the times and satirize the dignitaries. Some small poems that bid farewell to relatives and friends and write about daily life, such as "Seeing Two Ambassadors Anxi", "Acacia", "Thinking of Shandong Brothers on a Mountain Holiday" and "Seeing Shen Zifu off to the East of the River", have been handed down from ancient times to the present. The first two songs were broadcast as music at that time and were widely sung. These poems are all five-character poems or seven-character poems with sincere feelings and far-reaching artistic conception, which can be compared with Li Bai and Wang Changling's quatrains and represent the highest achievement of the quatrains in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. His poems that should be written, sung and preached to Buddha are rare, and there are occasional famous sentences.
Wang Wei's five laws and five-character and seven-character quatrains are the highest attainments, and other styles are also good at them, which are very prominent in the Tang Dynasty poetry circle. Its seven methods are either vigorous and gorgeous, or beautiful and elegant, which were imitated by the seven sons of the Ming Dynasty. The seven ancient forms are neatly arranged and the momentum is erratic. Prose is quiet and meaningful, full of poetry, such as The Mountain and Pei Xiucai's Book.
Wang Wei was famous both before and after his death, and was known as "the literate sect in the world" and "Shi Fo". Have a great influence on future generations. There are many collections compiled and annotated in past dynasties, and the earliest extant collection is Ming Jing's Poems of Lei Jian 10 (with 4 volumes attached). Wang Youcheng Annotation by Zhao Diancheng in Qing Dynasty is a good annotation so far.
Wang Wei is also good at painting. He can communicate poetry and painting, and is praised by Su Shi as "painting in poetry" and "poetry in painting". Able to figure, able to Buddha, especially good at landscapes, turquoise, ink and wash, known for ink and wash landscapes. The ink landscape is broken and the handwriting is cool. "Yunfeng stone color, secret, beyond the reach of painters." Have a great influence on future generations. In the late Ming Dynasty, Dong Qichang listed Wang Wei as the ancestor of painting in the Southern Song Dynasty in his "On Southern and Northern Schools". Wang Wei's paintings still exist in the Northern Song Dynasty. Xuanhe painting only recorded 126 paintings, but no works were handed down from generation to generation.