Wang Wei was influenced by Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty. Wang Wei is well versed in Buddhism and greatly influenced by Zen Buddhism. Wang Wei's poems have Buddhist meanings and his religious tendencies.
Wang Wei, a poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty. Known as "Shi Fo". The representative of the landscape poetry school in the prosperous Tang Dynasty initiated the school of ink and wash landscape painting.
Wang Wei is well versed in poetry, calligraphy, sound and painting. His poems are famous in Kaiyuan and Tianbao, especially in five words, and he is called "Wang Meng" together with Meng Haoran. He is called "Shi Fo" because of his sincere devotion to Buddhism. Calligraphy and painting are particularly wonderful, and later generations promoted it as the ancestor of Nanzong landscape painting. He is the author of Wang Youcheng Collection, with about 4 poems. Su Shi commented on the cloud in the Northern Song Dynasty: "There are paintings in the poems that are fascinating; Watch the painting, there are poems in the painting. "