Wang Wei is a representative of the pastoral poetry school in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He inherited and carried forward the pastoral poetry initiated by Xie Lingyun, which was unique, and made the achievements of pastoral poetry reach its peak, occupying an important position in the history of China poetry. Wang Wei also has excellent works in other aspects. Some of them reflect military and frontier life, some show chivalry, and some expose the disadvantages of the times. Some poems are sent to relatives and friends, and they are about daily life. For example, sending two envoys to Anxi, spending holidays in the mountains, missing brothers in Shandong, and sending Shen Zifu to Jiangdong. From ancient times to modern times. These short poems are all five elements or seven verses, sincere, unadorned, with simple and profound beauty, comparable to Li Bai and Wang Changling, representing the highest achievement of quatrains in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. His poems should be made, sung and preached to Buddhism. In the Tang dynasty, it was very prominent in poetry. Its seven methods are magnificent or elegant, which were learned by the seven sons of Ming Dynasty. Seven ancient arrangements are wandering. Prose is quiet, meaningful and poetic, such as Shan Shu and Pei Xiucai. Wang Wei was famous both before and after his death, and he had the reputation of "literate sect in the world" and "Shi Fo", which had a great influence on later generations.
It is precisely because he often looks at everything with the eyes of a Zen master that his poems have a quiet beauty, openness and tranquility that other poets can't reach. In particular, the dynamic images he described in A Moment of Nature are so pure and quiet and full of Zen, such as: "People are idle with sweet-scented osmanthus, and the night is quiet and the mountains are empty. The moon surprises the birds, and when the spring stream rings. " ("Bird Song" Egret is startled. "(Luan family color) and the famous phrase" moonlight in the pine forest, crystal stone in the stream "(autumn night in the mountains) often purify readers' hearts and give people endless quiet reverie.