Wang Wei and Meng Haoran are outstanding representatives of landscape pastoral poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and they are called "Wang Meng" by later generations.
Wang and Meng inherited Tao Yuanming's pastoral poetry and Xie Lingyun's landscape poetry art, combined innovation with reference, organically combined landscape and pastoral, and created many poems with vivid images, lofty artistic conception, concise and beautiful language, rich style and rich emotional appeal.
However, due to the different living environment and temperament, their writing style and artistic style are also different. The discussion of them is of positive significance for understanding the development of pastoral poetry in Tang Dynasty.
Differences between Wang Wei and Meng Haoran s pastoral poems;
Meng Haoran: Simple, clean, domineering and calm.
Meng Haoran likes to write scenes with simple pen and ink, pursuing a simple, clear and seamless artistic conception, and his expression techniques are random. For example, Wan Shan Tan Zuo, as a whole, gives people a kind of artistic conception of frankness, carefree, carefree and chic.
Wang Wei: Implicit and ethereal, full of Zen.
Known as "Shi Fo", Wang Wei tends to be clear, quiet, empty and silent in aesthetic taste. His poems often use quiet and silent images, an ethereal poetic mood, which is called "Zen" by people.
For example, in my retreat in Zhongnanshan, the whole poem expresses the pleasure of self-satisfaction, and does not intend to look for the excitement of beautiful scenery. Everything depends on my own interests. Naturally, at the moment of focusing on the cloud, I feel that everything has become an organic whole. This religious experience is the "Zen interest" shown in the poet's poems, and Yu Yang's Poems also call him "Wang Chuan's seclusion, and every word goes into Zen".