Meng Haoran was a poet in Tang Dynasty. Xiangyang, Xiangzhou, is called Meng Xiangyang. Wang Wei, a Mozi, was a famous poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and his official position was as famous as Shang Shu You Cheng.
Meng Haoran's poems broke away from the narrow realm of responding to the system and praising things in the early Tang Dynasty, expressed more personal embrace, brought fresh breath to Kaiyuan poetry circle, and won the admiration of people at that time. Li Bai praised him for "the mountains, how I long to reach you, you are just a pure poet", and Du Fu praised him for "the poems and songs of Qing people are no less than others". He was the first poet in the Tang Dynasty who wrote a large number of pastoral poems. Most of his poems are landscape poems, or he writes about the scenery he saw in various places during his travels, or about the natural scenery of his hometown. Among them, lonely feelings are often mixed with frustration, and homesickness is integrated into the entertainment of the scenery. Such as Sleeping at Jiande, A Gift from Dongting Lake to Prime Minister Zhang, Homesickness on the River, etc. His pastoral poems mainly show the elegant feelings of seclusion and leisure. Such as "Passing the Old Village" and "Wandering and Thinking Back to Wang Baiyun". Features Meng Haoran's pastoral poems are mostly peaceful and diluted, fresh and natural, uncut and extraordinary. His poems are good at using plain language, integrating personal subjective feelings and emotional implications, creating Qingyuan's artistic realm, which contains rich poetic meaning.
Wang Wei's achievements in poetry are various, including frontier poems, landscape poems, metrical poems and quatrains. He really has his unique attainments in describing natural scenery. Whether it is the grandeur of famous mountains and rivers, the grandeur of frontier blockades, or the quietness of small bridges and flowing water, it can accurately and concisely create a perfect and vivid image, with less pen and ink, high artistic conception and complete integration of poetry and painting. For example, Farmer Weishui, Autumn Night in the Deep Mountain, Zhongnanshan, Bird's Singing Stream, Chai Lu, Zhuliguan, Wu Xinyi, etc. Or write about the quiet and leisurely life in the countryside, or write about the quiet and beautiful natural scenery. Features: Wang Wei's pastoral poems are a high degree of unity of poetic sentiment and artistic implication. Some of these poems directly penetrate into the contemplative, tranquil and ethereal artistic realm of Zen, which is the artistic embodiment of Zen and Zen interest in the poetic realm. There are both the natural artistic realm of Tao Yuanming's poems and the meticulous carving of Xie Lingyun's poems. The language is fresh and lively, clean and concise, which is the perfect combination of simplicity and elegance. And language has a strong artistic expression.
Landscape pastoral poetry school is one of the two major poetry schools in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. This school of poetry is the successor of Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao. The poets of this school are famous for their good description of landscapes and pastoral scenery, and their artistic styles are relatively close. They reflect their peaceful mind or secluded thoughts by depicting quiet scenery, so they are called "the school of landscape pastoral poetry". The main writers are Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, Chang Jian, Zuyong, Pei Di and others. Among them, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, also known as "Wang Meng", have the highest achievements and the greatest influence.