Wang Wei was born in 701, with the courtesy name Mojie, and his ancestral home in Qi County, Shanxi Province. He was a poet of the Tang Dynasty and was known as the "Poetry Buddha". Wang Wei is a representative poet of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, with more than 400 surviving poems. Important poems include "Lovesickness", "Mountain Dwelling in the Autumn Twilight", etc.
Wang Wei is proficient in Buddhism and is greatly influenced by Zen Buddhism. There is a Buddhist "Vimalakīrti Sutra", which is the origin of Wang Wei's name and name. Wang Wei is famous for his poetry, calligraphy and painting. He is very versatile and proficient in music. Together with Meng Haoran, they are collectively known as "Wang Meng".
Wang Wei's high achievement in depicting natural scenery made him unique in the poetry world of the prosperous Tang Dynasty and became a representative figure of the landscape pastoral poetry school. He inherited and developed the tradition of writing landscape poetry initiated by Xie Lingyun, and also absorbed the freshness and nature of Tao Yuanming's pastoral poetry, which brought the achievement of landscape pastoral poetry to a peak, and thus occupied an important position in the history of Chinese poetry.
At the same time, Wang Wei's painting achievements were also very high. Su Dongpo praised him as "there are paintings in poems, and poems in paintings." He was particularly accomplished in landscape poetry.