The Tang Dynasty poets Wang Wei and Meng Haoran are known as "Wang Meng". They are both famous landscape pastoral poets in the Tang Dynasty.
1. The Tang Dynasty was the peak period of Chinese poetry and literature. Great poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi and countless famous poets were in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Wei and Meng Haoran were both famous poets during the Tang Dynasty, and their poems had a profound impact on later generations. At the same time, they are also the main representatives of the landscape pastoral school, known as "Wang Meng". Meng Haoran is also one of the "Four Frontier Poets".
2. The biggest feature of Wang Wei’s landscape poems is that he combines the Buddhist sentiments of landscapes to create an open, tranquil and leisurely light poetic mood. Therefore, Su Dongpo also praised him for “paintings in poems” "There is painting in the poem", and he also became detached from the world of poetry and won a kind of detachment and spiritual freedom. Therefore, "Wang Wei" was later called "Poetry Buddha".
3. Meng Haoran did not become an official, but became a hermit all his life. He was the first person of the landscape pastoral school in the Tang Dynasty. His poems mainly express the leisurely life of seclusion and the sad thoughts of a restricted life, with a light and natural style. Haoran's landscape poetry is very rich in artistic conception. Although it is quiet, it is full of vitality.
In terms of poetry expression, Hao Ran is very creative and full of free and easy feelings. He advocates using language to shape the image of poetry, and then using images to express the artistic conception of poetry, turning it into melancholy thinking. His poetry style is light and natural. The biggest feature of Hao Ran's landscape poetry is the integration of scenery and artistic conception.
His poems are close to his own life, without too many embellishments, the language is natural and pure, and the poetic landscape is calm, distant and interesting. Haoran was the first poet to write landscape poetry in the Tang Dynasty and was the forerunner of Wang Wei. But his poetic achievements are slightly inferior to Wang Wei. Su Shi's evaluation of him was that "the rhyme is high but the talent is short, just like making wine without ingredients", so he has no other titles.
My feeling is that Wang Wei’s heart has become one with nature, while Meng Haoran’s heart always wants to get out of nature.