I have loved Wang Wei's pastoral poems since childhood. Wang Wei's pastoral poetry has a beautiful and simple artistic conception, which is quiet and ethereal. Su Dongpo praised that "there are pictures in the poems of Wei Mo Jie and poems in the paintings of Guan Mo Jie." Wang Wei's pastoral poems have very distinctive characteristics of Chinese painting. Each image is flexible and lifelike, which is a beautiful pastoral scroll. The poet's mood and rural scenery blend well, implicit and meaningful.



Wang Wei's poems are colorful pastoral freehand brushwork. Wang Wei is a master of color matching. In his works, the pastoral scenery has both distinctive personality and harmony. With a few strokes, the realm comes out, and the ordinary scenery goes into poetry and painting. Even the 20 character quatrains are colorful, well matched, and full of painter skills. "Jingxi white stone, cold days, red leaves rare." The combination of red and white makes the rural river called Jingxi have a bright and beautiful beauty in late autumn. "Qingqing Baishi beach, green cattail to Kamba." Between white and green, the vitality of the beach in early spring leaps into the eyes, full of elegance.



Wang Wei's poems are interesting sketches of small animals. Ordinary small animals are Wang Wei's favorite and the protagonist of his pastoral poems and paintings. The symbolic actions of those small animals thousands of years ago, Wang Wei can always accurately capture and depict the lovely moment, which makes the countryside full of affection. "In the rustling autumn rain, the shallow stones slipped away. The jumping waves splashed each other, and the egrets were startled." What a beautiful and interesting scene of egrets playing in the waves. The swift, persistent and somewhat naughty egrets in the rain vividly emerge in front of us. "The autumn mountains gather more photos, and birds chase their former partners." In the last light of the sunset, the male and female birds followed each other back and forth to return to their nests, warm and full of the interest of heaven and family. "Egrets fly in the desert paddy field, and orioles sing in the gloomy summer wood." Egrets in the field are always particularly dazzling in the rain, and the singing of orioles behind the thick shade may be the most natural sound of summer at that time.



Wang Wei's poetry is a passionate picture of rural life. The pastoral life described by Wang Wei is true and vivid, simple and full of emotion. Although the life scenes described are familiar even today, they are full of beauty and poetry. "I live in the West and east of the water, under the moon." "The bamboo noise returns to the huannv, and the fishing boat is moved." Those girls who wash clothes, whether playing and chasing in the bamboo forest or working under the water like moon, make this rural life full of youthful vitality and beauty. The countryside that makes others think vulgar is full of poetry and fantasy in the poet's works. "Let's fight for seats with the old man. What's more suspicious about the seagull?" The old people in the countryside are so unfettered and intimate, which is a picture of old urchins playing in groups.



Wang Wei's poetry is a quiet and remote picture of rural seclusion. Wang Wei's poems have a lot of space, quiet artistic conception and strong Zen flavor, which makes the countryside in his works have a unique beauty of Zen, showing a bright color of "poetry Buddha". "The bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear spring stone flows upward." The bright moon is like water, the water is as clear as the moon, and the water and the moon blend, which is quiet and ethereal. The moon watcher's clothes are flying, and he is silent in the face of mountains and rivers. This kind of leisure is hard to express. Poets sometimes express their sincere love for detached and comfortable life. "When I walk to a poor place, I sit and watch the clouds rise. I happen to be Lin sou, and I have no time to talk and laugh." It can be seen that Wang Wei has really lived a "slow" life in the countryside. He has no fame and wealth, and is tired of paperwork. He does what he wants, and truly integrates himself into nature and lives naturally.



In my childhood memory, in spring, I saw my parents driving cows to plow in the rain wearing hats and coir raincoats, watching swallows build nests under the eaves, and listening to cuckoos calling in the depths of rain and fog; In summer, I went to the river to fish and catch crabs on the path of bluestone. At night, I listened to the old man tell the story of ghost fox under the big tree at the entrance of the village, holding a net bag to catch streamers; In autumn, the sky is high and the wild geese fly south, and a group of friends go up the mountain to pick wild fruits; In winter, villagers cook tea and gossip around the stove. In Wang Wei's poems, I can always recall a strong sense of nostalgia, such as alcohol like wine.



Today, I love Wang Wei's pastoral poems not only because of the beauty of the pastoral scenery, but also because I taste the indifferent truth in the poems. Indifferent people are indifferent to their desires. "All scenery words are love words", when Wang Wei described the beautiful countryside in his mind, he either implicitly or obviously expressed his return to nature, and talked about the diluted purport of landscape and the peace of mind of not striving for fame and profit. Therefore, Wang Wei's poems are full of quiet, simple and broad-minded aesthetic characteristics. Indifference is also a valuable temperament. "If you are not indifferent, you will have no ambition.". Reading Wang Wei's poems is both an aesthetic journey and self-cultivation. (song Chunxu)