1. Wang Wei's talent showed early, and his brother Wang Jin, who was one year younger, was both very smart when he was young. When he was fifteen years old, he went to the capital to take the exam. Because he could write good poems, was good at calligraphy and painting, and had musical talent, the young Wang Wei immediately became the favorite of the princes and nobles of the capital as soon as he arrived in the capital.

2. He has great talent in music. There is a story in "Supplement to the History of the Tang Dynasty": Once, a man got a music picture, but he didn't know why he titled it. After seeing it, Wang Wei replied: "This is the first beat of the third stack of "The Song of Colorful Feather Clothes"." He invited musicians to play, and it turned out to be exactly the same.

3. After becoming an official, Wang Wei used his spare time in bureaucratic life to build a villa at the foot of Nanlantian Mountain in the capital to cultivate his body and mind. The villa was originally owned by Song Zhiwen, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty. It was a very spacious place with mountains, lakes, woods and valleys, and several buildings scattered among it. Wang Wei and his close friends lived a leisurely life, living a semi-official and semi-hidden life.

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Evaluation of Wang Wei:

There is a saying in the world that "Li Bai is a genius, Du Fu is a local talent, and Wang Wei is a talent". Later generations also called Wang Wei the Buddha of Poetry. This title not only reflected the Buddhist meaning in Wang Wei's poems and Wang Wei's religious inclination, but also expressed the later generations' affirmation of Wang Wei's lofty status in the poetry world of the Tang Dynasty.

Wang Wei is not only a recognized poet and Buddha, but also a master of Nanshan literati painting (Qian Zhongshu called him "the number one figure in the painting circle of the prosperous Tang Dynasty"). He is also proficient in music, calligraphy, and seal script. He is a rare all-rounder with a good hand at engraving.

Wang Wei's poetry enjoyed a high reputation both during his lifetime and in later generations. History says that "his reputation flourished among Kaiyuan and Tianbao, and heroes and nobles greeted him from the left, and kings Ning and Xue treated him like mentors and friends" (the original biography of "New Book of Tang"). Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty once praised him as the "Tianwen Zong" ("Reply to Wang Jinjin and Wang Wei's Collection of Imperial Edicts").

Du Fu also called him "the most beautiful line in the world" (eight of the twelve poems in "Relief from Boredom"). At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Sikong Tu praised his "interests and clarity, as clear as Shen's in the Qing Dynasty" ("Reviewing Poems and Books with Wang Jia"). In the past, Wang Wei was praised as the "Buddha of Poetry", and was mentioned together with the "Sage of Poetry" Du Fu and the "Immortal of Poetry" Li Bai.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Wei (Poet and Painter of the Tang Dynasty)