Meng Haoran lived in seclusion for a long time and once lived in Lumen Mountain near his hometown. Meng Haoran was a hermit all his life.
Meng Haoran was the highest poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He was the first poet to get rid of the narrow poetic realm in the early Tang Dynasty, and he worked hard to create pastoral poems. In his poems, he not only successfully described a series of elegant and quiet environments, but also shaped the image of a noble person living in them. Meng Haoran's masterpiece "Passing the Old Village" describes the unpretentious countryside and life in popular language, which is very close to life.
Night Sleeping in Jiande changed the stagnation of traditional landscape poetry, focusing on lyricism, choosing typical images, using side lining or contrast, turning secrets into emptiness and forming a unique artistic conception.
Meng Haoran's poetry combines traditional pastoral and landscape themes, and makes a unique contribution to pastoral landscape poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty with distinctive image combination and clear and diluted language.
When Wang Wei, a young and intelligent man, was 0/7 years old, he wrote the phrase "I miss my family more often during the festive season", which was widely circulated. He is not only gifted in poetry, but also good at calligraphy and painting, and proficient in temperament. He entered the officialdom at the age of 20, but he was not enthusiastic about being an official. He embarked on a semi-official and semi-secluded road and wrote a lot of pastoral poems.
Wang Wei's poetry creation at the age of 37 can be divided into two periods. His early works are bold and optimistic, showing positive spirit of the times and attitude towards life. He wrote more frontier ranger poems and resentment poems, such as "Old General", "Embarrassed Border" and "Hunting". These poems are vigorous and passionate, reflecting a kind of masculine beauty.
Wang Wei mainly wrote pastoral poems in his later period. Landscape pastoral poetry, in his pen, wrote a quiet and comfortable realm. "Weishui Farmhouse" describes the old shepherd boy, cattle, sheep, pheasants, silkworms, wheat seedlings and mulberry leaves, and also describes the quiet, harmonious and warm rural life. Wrote:
Sunset shines on the market, and cattle and sheep go home along the path. A rugged old man in a thatched door leaned against a cane and thought about his son, the shepherd boy. There are whistling pheasants? Full ears of wheat, sleeping silkworms and peeled mulberry leaves. Jojo and Fu Tian greet each other cordially.
The most important thing about Wang Wei's poems is that there are pictures in his characteristic poems. He is good at creating artistic meaning in his poems, which makes his poems have vivid images, as if appealing to vision. Secondly, the artistic conception of Wang Wei's poems is quiet and full of vitality.
Among the pastoral poets, besides Meng Haoran and Wang Wei, there are also Chu Guangxi, Chang Jian and Zuyong. The pastoral style of these people is close to Meng Haoran and Wang Wei.