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Wang Wei

Wang Wei (Chinese: 王維; 699–759) was a Chinese poet, musician, painter, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty. He is regarded as one of the most famous men of arts and letters of his era. Many of his poems survive and 29 of them are included in the 18th-century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.

Wang Wei is especially known as a poet and painter of nature. Some 400 poems survive. These were first collected and originally edited into a corpus by his next-youngest brother, Wang Jin, by imperial command. Of his paintings, no authenticated specimens survive, although there is evidence of his work through influences on later paintings and descriptive accounts of his paintings. His musical talents were regarded very highly, although nothing survives of his music except reports. He furthermore had a successful career as a court official. Eventually, he became a devout Zen Buddhist and a vegetarian. Wang Wei spent ten years studying with Chán master Daoguang.

A View of the Han River

Wang Wei

A Song of Young Girls from Lo-Yang

Wang Wei

A Song at Wei-ch’eng

Wang Wei

A Parting

Wang Wei

On the Way to the Temple

Wang Wei

News from Home

Wang Wei

My Retreat at Chung-Nan

Wang Wei

Mount Chung-Nan

Wang Wei

A Message to P’ai Ti

Wang Wei

Lines

Wang Wei

In My Lodge at Wang-Ch’uan after a Long Rain

Wang Wei

In a Retreat among Bamboos

Wang Wei

Harmonizing a Poem by Palace-Attendant Kuo

Wang Wei

A Green Stream

Wang Wei

Bound Home to Mount Sung

Wang Wei

The Beautiful Hsi-shih

Wang Wei

Answering Vice-Prefect Chang

Wang Wei

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