Wang Wei is proficient in poetry, calligraphy, painting and music. He is famous for his poems, especially his five words, which praise the landscape and countryside. Together with Meng Haoran, he was called "Wang Meng" and "Shi Fo". Calligraphy and painting are particularly wonderful, and later generations promoted it to the ancestor of Nanzong landscape painting. Su Shi commented: "Poetry is full of paintings; Look at the picture, there are poems in the picture. "
There are more than 400 poems, including Acacia and Autumn Night in the Mountain. His works include The Collection of Wang Youcheng's Works and The Secret of Painting.
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Later generations also called Wang Wei Shi Fo, which not only expressed the Buddhist meaning and religious tendency in Wang Wei's poems, but also affirmed Wang Wei's lofty position in Tang poetry. Wang Wei is not only recognized as Shi Fo, but also a master of Nanshan literati painting. Qian Zhongshu called him "the first person in the painting world in the prosperous Tang Dynasty", and he was proficient in temperament, calligraphy and seal cutting. He is a rare generalist.
As far as ideological content is concerned, Wang Wei's poems are far from comparable to those of Li and Du Fu. In terms of art, Wang Wei did have his unique achievements and contributions. In the Tang Dynasty, the poems of Liu Changqing, Ten Talents in Dali, Yao He and Jia Dao were all influenced by Wang Wei to varying degrees. Until the Qing Dynasty, Wang Shizhen admired verve, but actually regarded his poems as worship.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Wei