Wang Wei had a positive attitude towards life and political ambitions when he was young. He wrote The Journey to the West's poems about frontier fortress and ranger, and described various subjects in the genre of Gexing, with the vigorous style of Cen Can and Gao Shi.
Wang Wei's later poems about mountains and rivers truly represent his poetic art. His works, mainly in five words, such as "Birds in the Stream", describe secluded life, idyllic landscapes, and pursue a quiet and leisurely spiritual life, with a simple and quiet style.
Wang Wei's works are full of Buddhism and Zen thoughts, seclusion thoughts, political setbacks, dead wives and so on. The involvement of Buddhist thought became the dominant thought of avoiding the world in his later years.
When Wang Wei was seventeen years old, he wrote a lyric poem about homesickness for nine years: "I miss my brothers on vacation in the mountains of Shandong" (seven-word quatrain): I miss my relatives twice every festive season when I am in a foreign land. When I think of my brothers' bodies climbing high, I will feel a little regret for not being able to reach me. It has become a famous poem of China Lunar Double Ninth Festival. ?
1. Ancient custom On the Double Ninth Festival on September 9, people wore dogwood capsules to climb mountains and drank chrysanthemum wine, thinking that they could avoid disaster.
2. Wang Weishi is seventeen years old and studying in Chang 'an. His younger brothers are all in their hometown of Zhou Pu (now Yongji County, Shaanxi Province). Zhou Pu is located in the east of Huashan Mountain, so this poem is titled "Shandong".
Wang Wei (70 1-76 1) was born in Zhou Pu, Hedong (now Yuncheng, Shanxi). Famous poets and painters in Tang Dynasty
Wang Wei was born in Hedong Wang, and his ancestral home is Qixian County, Shanxi Province. In the 19th year of Kaiyuan (73 1), he was the top scholar, right officer, suggestion and judge in Hexi. During the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, officials worshipped the official department as doctors and servants.
When An Lushan captured Chang 'an, Wang Wei was forced to accept a fake position. After Chang 'an was recovered, he was accused of granting Prince Zhongyun. In the first year of Tang Suzong's rule, he was appointed as a senior minister, so he was called "Wang Youcheng".
Wang Wei is proficient in poetry, calligraphy, painting and music. He is famous for his poems of Kaiyuan and Tianbao, especially his five words. He and Meng Haoran are called "Wang Meng" and "Shi Fo"?
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Painting style
Wang Wei's poems, paintings and calligraphy are very famous, very versatile and greatly influenced by Zen. He founded the School of Ink and Wash Landscape Painting. In addition, he is also good at figures, religious figures, flowers and bamboo, and is proficient in landscape painting. He made great contributions to landscape painting, and was called "the ancestor of Nanzong Painting".
Dong Qichang put forward the word "literati painting" in Ming Dynasty, and Wang Wei was the ancestor. Wang Wei personally appreciates his identity as a painter. His poem "Accidental Works" wrote: "A poet who has been a poet for a long time, his predecessor should be a painter", but he thinks he is a painter rather than a poet.
personal influence
Wang Wei's landscape poems are mostly written in the later period. Compared with his predecessors, he expanded the content of this kind of poetry and added its artistic style, which made the achievements of landscape poetry reach an unprecedented height. This is his outstanding contribution to China's classical poetry.
Among them, the pastoral poems describing rural scenery and farm life are full of pastoral sentiment, showing his leisurely interest and calm and comfortable state of mind.
Throughout, the heart shines on the water, the heart is lined with the water, and things and I blend, which embodies an inherent pursuit of beauty. While some pastoral poems focus on rendering ethereal artistic conception and lonely feelings. For example, Zhuliguan and Wu Xinyi are all weak, and they are designed to be quiet and interesting. This will undoubtedly have a certain negative impact on later landscape poems.
Wang Wei is brilliant, and the infiltration of different arts has had a far-reaching impact on his poems. He put painting into poetry, which made his landscape poems poetic.
The language of Wang's poems is implicit, fresh and lively, with varied sentence patterns and rhythms, loud and harmonious phonology and musical beauty. In a word, Wang Wei's landscape poems have a far-reaching influence on later generations, both in subject matter and artistic style.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Wei