Why are Wang Wei's poems so famous?

Wang Wei's poems were widely circulated in the upper class when he was young, and had a direct social effect. Some poems have also been introduced into music and sung everywhere, expanding its acceptance. This spread and acceptance continued until the end of the Tang Dynasty after his death. Many poets of Wang Wei's contemporaries later studied Wang Wei's poems. Among the poets in the Tang Dynasty, only Li Bai and Bai Juyi can be compared.

Wang Wei's landscape poems serve as a link between the past and the future, pushing landscape poems from their peak to their peak, and further developing China's landscape poems. This can be confirmed by the artistic achievements and styles of Wang Wei's landscape poems.

Landscape poetry has a long history and has gone through the gestation period (pre-Qin to Western Jin Dynasty). Formation period (Eastern Jin Dynasty); Prosperity period (Southern and Northern Dynasties to Sui Dynasty); Shengshi (Tang and Five Dynasties); Extension period (Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties).

Wang Wei is an outstanding representative in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, representing the highest level of China's landscape poems. There are more than 400 songs by Wang Wei, covering a wide range of topics. Among them, there are about 100 landscape poems with mountains and rivers, flowers and plants, birds and animals, insects and fish as their themes, which depict their vivid images, artistically reflect all kinds of natural beauty and reflect the author's aesthetic taste, accounting for a quarter of all his poems and ranking first among all other themes. In terms of artistic creativity, these more than 100 landscape poems have far surpassed their predecessors, and have had a wide and far-reaching impact on later generations.