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. 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.
Wei Zen is sensible, learning from Zhuang and believing in Taoism. Many of Wang Wei's poems are quiet, far away from the world and full of Zen. The artistic conception of mountains and rivers has gone beyond the ordinary plain natural aesthetics and entered a religious realm, which is the inevitable embodiment of Wang Wei's cultivation of Buddhism and Taoism. Wang Wei lived in an era when Buddhism flourished.
There is no doubt that Shi Fo was Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty. In the second chapter of Buddhism and China Literature, Sun Changwu wrote: "Wang Wei's poems are significantly influenced by Buddhism. Therefore, long before his death, he was known as a' contemporary poet who was also good at Zen'. Later, he was awarded the title of' Shi Fo'. " Of course, Shi Fo's achievements benefited from the Buddhist heart, Buddhist language and Buddhist realm in Wang Wei's poems.
Poetry is a record of the soul, which is very suitable for Wang Wei. During Wang Wei's trip to Shi Fo, poems recorded his mental journey. The experience of getting close to Buddhism in adolescence, cultivating oneself with Buddhism in middle age and cultivating mind with Buddhism in old age made Wang Wei's life full of Buddhist flavor, which made Wang Wei's cultural life have an indissoluble bond with Buddhism.
The profound connotation of Buddhist culture has profoundly influenced Wang Wei's way of thinking, behavior and literary expression, and it is clearly reflected in Wang Wei's poetry creation, which makes many of his poems bear the imprint of Buddhism. The reason why Wang Wei is called a Shi Fo worker is really because of his "Zen in Poetry", which is embodied in that he looks at things with the heart of Buddha and tells them in the language of Buddha, and excellent chapters reach the realm of Buddha.