Wang Wei's Zen poems are cold and quiet, far from the world and full of Zen. The artistic conception of mountains and rivers has gone beyond the ordinary natural aesthetics and implications and entered the realm of faith, which is the inevitable embodiment of Wang Wei's Buddhist cultivation. Wang Wei lived in an era when Buddhism flourished. Scholar-officials learning Buddhism is very popular. Wang Wei lived in seclusion several times in his life and devoted himself to studying Buddhism in order to get rid of fame and fortune and troubles.
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Sometimes go to the end of the water to seek the source, or sit and watch the ever-changing clouds rise.
After middle age, I have a strong kind heart, and I didn't settle down at the edge of Mount Zhongnan until my later years.
Interest concentration is often unique to play and have a happy thing to enjoy self-appreciation.
Sometimes go to the end of the water to seek the source, or sit and watch the ever-changing clouds rise.
Occasionally I met a village elder in the Woods, and I chatted with him until I often forgot to go home.
-"My retreat in Zhongnanshan"
This poem vividly describes the author's leisure after retirement and highlights the open-minded character of retirees. The poet was depressed and wandered alone. At the end of the water, he sat still and watched the changes of the clouds, vividly depicting the image of a hermit, just like seeing him.
Talking and laughing with the old people in the mountains, forgetting the time to go home, very free, is a typical example captured by the poet in a typical environment. The whole poem is as plain as a word, but it is very skillful, poetic and interesting.
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When people get old, they especially like silence and are indifferent to everything.
I think that there is no brilliant strategy to serve the country, only to retire to the mountains and forests.
Wide wind, the wind in the shade, the moon shining on the right to play the piano.
To know the truth about the poor, please listen to the fishing songs in the deep water.
-"Answer to Deputy Magistrate Zhang"
Wide wind, the wind in the shade, the moon shining on the right to play the piano. You ask me good or bad luck? Listen, there is a fisherman singing on the lake! S's poems are full of Zen machines close to nature, body, materialization and fate.
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People are idle, osmanthus flowers fall, and the night is quiet and empty.
People are idle, osmanthus flowers fall, and the night is quiet and empty.
When the moon comes out, the birds are startled, and the sound enters the spring stream.
-"Birding Creek"
Everything is silent and inaction, illusory and impermanent, with no purpose, no consciousness, no joy of life and no sorrow of death, but everything is immortal and eternal, just as Hu Yinglin's poems and Yao's Tang poetry "Expression" commented: People "forget their life experiences when reading, and all thoughts are silent, which does not mean that there is such a wonderful interpretation in the melody".
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I don't know where Ji Xiang Temple is, so I climbed several miles into the clouds and peaks.
Ancient trees are towering, but there are no pedestrian paths, and there are bells in the mountains in the temple.
The spring water in the mountains hits the dangerous rocks, and the sun in the pine forest is cold.
In the evening, come to the empty pool and meditate quietly to suppress the dragon.
-"Ji Xiang Temple"
The poem depicts the secluded environment of the ancient temple in the mountains with the quiet artistic conception of Buddhism, thus creating a lofty and secluded artistic conception. Wang Guowei said: "I don't know all the scenery, but all the feelings." The first six sentences of the poem are purely about scenery, but there is no place that does not reveal the poet's artistic conception.
Poetry approaches Ji Xiang Temple from far and near, from scenery to emotion, from "entering Yunfeng" to "empty pool music", and finally reveals the feeling that "thought can conquer lust-dragon". It is natural that there is no trace of this transition.
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In the rustling autumn rain, shallow pomegranate diarrhea.
The jumping waves splashed each other, and the egret was shocked.
-"Luan Family Color"
The autumn rain is bleak and the water is rushing. The water is rolling around, and the waves are very big. The egret flew in fright and then fell. The poem skillfully compares the tranquility and silence of Luan's family color through a false alarm of "egrets are surprised again" with the artistic technique of being surprised in silence and seeing silence in surprise. Here, without any potential threat, you can live a carefree and quiet life.
It looks like a scene, but it is actually a person. The waves are the trampling and insult of life. Wang Wei himself suffered an Anshi rebellion, which was trampled on by Wang Wei in his own life. But so what? No matter how big the disaster will be, just like this egret, it will return safely again.