Selected Poems of Wang Wei (chinese Classical Literature Selections Series)
by Selected Notes By Zhao Rengui And Wang He
About This Novel
Wang Wei is a representative of landscape pastoral poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and is called "Wang Meng" together with Meng Haoran. Wang Wei's ancestral home was Taiyuan (today's Qixian County, Shanxi Province), and he was born in the first year of Chang'an (701), the first year of Empress Wu's reign. In his early years, he also yearned for fame, so he wrote many works about frontier fortresses. Wang Wei's poems are of various styles, especially the five rhymes. Wang Wei is proficient in music and painting, creating a quiet and beautiful poetic environment of "painting within poetry, poetry within painting". The beauty of emptiness and tranquility are the outstanding features of Wang Wei's poetry. The poems of Wang Wei selected in this book, on the basis of highlighting his pastoral works, comprehensively display the multi-faceted artistic characteristics of Wang Wei's poems, and are accompanied by concise annotations and analyzes to help readers appreciate the unique artistic conception of Wang Wei's poems.
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