Author: Wang Wei
From a distance, the mountains are high and the clouds are light, and the colors are bright. When you look closer, you can only hear the sound of water, but there is no sound.
Spring has passed, but there are still many flowers and flowers. People go nearby, but the birds are still not disturbed.
[translation]
You can see the green of the mountains in the distance.
There is no sound of running water nearby.
Spring has passed, but the flowers are still unbeaten.
People approached the bird on the branch, but did not move.
It is to describe and praise superb painting skills, and the things in this painting are just like real ones.
Wang Wei
Wang Wei (70 1-76 1) was a poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Qi zhou (now Qixian County, Shanxi Province) was born and later moved to Zhou Pu (now Yongji, Shanxi Province). Born into a bureaucratic landlord family, Wang Wei is versatile. He is not only highly accomplished in poetry, but also proficient in calligraphy, painting and music. In the 9th year of Kaiyuan (72 1), Wang Weizhong was a scholar, who successively collected the remains and supervised the empire. When An Shi Rebellion invaded Chang 'an, they were captured and forced to hold a fake post. After the recovery of Chang 'an, it was reduced to Prince Zhongyun. This official eventually became the right minister of Shangshu, that is, Wang Youcheng.
During his stay in Zhang Jiuling, Wang Wei was full of initiative and enterprising spirit, and his poems also showed high spirits. After middle age, with the deterioration of the political situation, Wang Wei lived a secluded life in Zhongnan and Wangchuan Villa, devoted himself to the creation of pastoral poetry, and became a representative writer of the pastoral poetry school in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Wang Wei's pastoral poems directly inherited Tao Yuanming's elegant, indifferent and far-reaching artistic style, which is famous for his meticulous observation and keen feeling. "Painting in poetry" is a remarkable feature of Wang Wei's poetry. Su Dongpo once said: "There are poems in paintings, poems in ink and paintings in poems." His poems are often poetic and picturesque, creating a memorable artistic realm, with fresh and elegant style and distant artistic conception. In his later years, Wang Wei fasted for a long time to worship Buddha, and his pastoral poems were obviously imbued with Zen. This is Wang Youcheng.