Let me talk about Wang Wei.

Wang Wei was born in the first year of Wu Zetian. Wang Wei showed his talent at an early age. Smart since childhood, outstanding talent. Wang Wei, who was smart and studious since childhood, read poetry and studied hard.

Wang Wei was also full of ambition to serve the country in his early years, and he was once eager to make contributions, which was the common wish of all literati in that era. Wang Wei later lived in seclusion in the mountains and devoted himself to practicing Buddhism, largely because he was extremely dissatisfied with the politics at that time. Especially when his good friend Zhang Jiuling was excluded and had to be exiled to a distant place, Wang Wei decided to retire from the mountains.

China ancient scholar-officials have always been like this. If you live in a temple, you will worry about your own people, and if you live far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about your own monarch. The official career is smooth sailing, eager to go further and make contributions to the country; When the official career is not smooth, I am eager to return to the mountains to cultivate my self. So is Wang Wei.

As a representative poet of pastoral poetry, Wang Wei's poems rarely directly reflect the lives of working people except expressing his feelings and describing the magnificent mountains and rivers of the motherland. There is a big gap between him and Li Bai and Du Fu, which also reflects the influence of Buddhism on Wang Wei's thought.

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After becoming an official, Wang Wei used his leisure time in officialdom to build a villa at the foot of the South Blue Sky Mountain in Beijing to cultivate his self-cultivation. The owner of this villa is Song Wenzhi, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty.

This is a very vast place, with mountains and lakes, Woods and valleys, and some houses scattered among them. At this time, Wang Wei and his intimate friends lived a leisurely life. This is his semi-official and semi-hidden life.

Wang Wei, who has been living a comfortable life, was involved in unexpected waves in his later years. An Shi Rebellion broke out in the 14th year of Tianbao in Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (755). In the war, he was captured by the thief army and forced to be a fake official. However, this became a serious problem after the war subsided, so he was handed over to the company for trial. By rights, he should be beheaded by the rebels. Fortunately, in the chaos, he once wrote a poem longing for the son of heaven.

Coupled with the intercession of the younger brother (who had absconded with the emperor), Wang Cai was spared and was only demoted. Later, he was promoted to Shangshu Youcheng.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Wei