Wang Wei was born in the royal family in Hedong, and won the top prize in the 19th year of Kaiyuan. Li Guan right gleaned, supervised the remonstrance, and made our time in Hexi. During the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei worshipped the official department as a doctor and servant.
When An Lushan captured Chang 'an, Wang Wei was forced to take a false post. After Chang 'an was recovered, he was accused of granting Prince Zhongyun. In the first year of Tang Suzong's rule, he was appointed as a senior minister, so he was called Wang Youcheng.
Wang Wei is proficient in poetry, calligraphy, painting and music. He is famous for his poems of Kaiyuan and Tianbao, especially for his five words praising landscapes and pastoral areas. He is also known as Wang Meng with Meng Haoran and is known as the "Buddha".
Calligraphy and painting are particularly wonderful, and later generations promoted it to the ancestor of Nanzong landscape painting. Su Shi commented on his poems, which were full of paintings. Look at the picture. There are poems in it.
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Wang Wei's achievements in poetry are various, including frontier poems, landscape poems, metrical poems and quatrains. He has unique attainments in describing natural scenery.
Whether it is the grandeur of famous mountains and rivers, the grandeur of frontier blockades, or the quietness of small bridges and flowing water, it can accurately and concisely create a perfect and vivid image, with less pen and ink, high artistic conception and complete integration of poetry and painting.
Landscape pastoral poetry school is one of the two major poetry schools in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. This school of poetry is the successor of Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao. The poets of this school are famous for their good description of landscapes and pastoral scenery, and their artistic styles are relatively close.
By depicting quiet scenery, it reflects its quiet mind or secluded thoughts, so it is called landscape pastoral poetry school. Its main writers are Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, Chang Jian, Zuyong and Pei Di, among which Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, also known as Wang Meng, have the highest achievements and the greatest influence.
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