Wang Wei

王維 Wáng Wéi (701? - 761) is a Chinese writer. Poet, painter, musician and senior official, nature and the Bouddhisme hold an important place in his work.

Large Chinese poet of the Dynasty Tang, Wang Wei was born towards the end from the 7th century. Certain books show the 699 like its birth date, and the 759 like its date of death, therefore one cannot give a date certifiable. He was received arts doctor in 713, the year even where Xuan Zong inherited the sovereign capacity. Also famous like poet and doctor, it for these two reasons had to be all at the same time required by the emperor, guard enlightened of the letters, and by the famous rebel An Lushan, this Tartar who asked which animal it was that a poet and with which use it could be useful.

Xerxès tested vainly, tells us the History, to attract Hippocrates by present; An Lushan was caught there in very an other manner: it made remove Wang Wei and retained it a long time close to him. The biographers show us this poet-doctor filling the duties of his profession, while remaining faithful to its Master, sometimes looking after, on a battle field, the casualties of the rebellious army, sometimes not fearing to improvise, with the table even of the barbarian chief, the worms in the honor of its legitimate sovereign.

After the death of Year Lushan and the pacification of the Empire, Su Zong, which had succeeded his/her father, named Wang Wei governor of Suzhou. It was a considerable station, but to which he preferred soon the rest and loneliness; it was withdrawn in a country house, which it had in the middle of a mountainous country, to carry out to it until its last day this contemplative existence, if expensive with so much of Chinese well-read men.

Wang Wei professed the worship of Bouddha; it did not sleep that in a bed of cords (a hammock probably). He married only one woman, still lost it young person, and remaria not. He died at the sixty two years age, leaving for his brother, become Prime Minister, and for several of his friends, of the letters impressed of a great detachment of the things of this world, where he urges them to fold up himself on themselves, and to purify their heart.

See too

Poems of Wang Wei in French translation

Zh-classical: 王維

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