On Zen Interest, Zen Theory and Zen Meaning in Wang Wei's Wang Jichuan

Known as the "Shi Fo", Wang Wei studied Buddhism all his life, and wrote a lot of works about Zen poetry, especially his landscape poem "Twenty Scenes of Wangchuan". There are many shadows of Buchan everywhere. Zen is hidden in the scenery, forming an ethereal and silent world, setting off the poet's detached and mysterious heart and conveying his leisure, silence, ethereal and freedom.

Poets especially like to express a quiet and tranquil realm, and some works are desolate or lonely, showing indifference to reality and even Zen thoughts and feelings. After middle age, Wang Wei became increasingly depressed and sought sustenance in Buddhism and landscapes. He claimed that "silence is joy, and there is much leisure in this life" ("Fanbu Busan Monk"). This state of mind has been fully reflected in his poetry creation. In the past, many people admired Wang Wei's poems, on the one hand, because of his high artistic skills, on the other hand, because of his leisure and negative thoughts. In the Ming Dynasty, Hu Yinglin called Wang Wei's five-line poem "Zen", and said that two poems, Bird-singing Creek and Wu Xinyi, "I forgot my life experience after reading them, and my thoughts were all silent" (poems), which is proof. Legend of Snow Scene is a work about Wang Wei's parting and travel, and there are often some beautiful sentences describing the scenery, such as "Far trees lead, the sunset is red in the distant city" ("Sending money home") and "Half a mountain and half a rain, thousands of valleys come to the Silk Waterfall" ("To Li Shi in Zizhou"). The tides rise and fall on the earth (Farewell to Guizhou) and Lonely Smoke in the Desert.