2. Wang Wei's personality is rubbing and counting. Hedong Zhou Pu (now Yuncheng, Shanxi) was born in Qixian, Shanxi. Poets and painters in Tang Dynasty. Wang Wei was born in the royal family of Hedong, and was a scholar in the ninth year of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (72 1). Li Guan right gleaned, supervised the remonstrance, and made our time in Hexi.
3. Wang Wei participates in Zen, learns Taoism, and is proficient in poetry, books, paintings and music. He was famous for his poems in Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods, especially his five-character poems, praising landscapes and pastoral areas. Together with Meng Haoran, they are called "Wang Meng". His calligraphy and painting are wonderful, and later people call him the ancestor of Nanzong landscape painting.
4. Wang Wei is versatile. He brought the essence of painting into the world of poetry and painted vivid works for us with spiritual language and beautiful brushwork. Su Shi once said: "Poetry is like painting in charm, and painting is like poetry in charm" (Dongpo Zhi Lin).