Wang Wei
Wang Wei, word Mojie . The name and the words are combined into " Vimalakirti ".
Vimalakirti is a Bodhisattva in Buddhism. During the , of the Tang Dynasty, there were many believers, and Wang Wei's mother was one of them. So she took Vimalakirti's name apart and gave it to her son, meaning "clean, free of dirt."
Wang Wei has a relatively high origin, and family education is also very good. His father is Taiyuan Wang family , and his mother is Boling Cui family , both of which are famous families.
In 721 AD, the 27-year-old Wang Wei passed the Jinshi and was said to have won the top scorer. This is not only related to Wang Wei's talent, but also to the favor of the royal relatives and nobles.
Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's fourth brother Qi Wang Li Fan was Wang Wei's friend. Later, Wang Wei's song " Yulun Rou " conquered Li Longji's ninth sister Princess Yuzhen . After becoming a Jinshi at
, Wang Wei was appointed as Tailecheng by the court. Later, he was appreciated by Zhang Jiuling, the , and served as the right-hand man, the supervisory censor, the , the jailer of Hexi , the judgment of the military governor, the jailer of the Ministry of Personnel, and the jailer of the secondary position.
Zhang Jiuling was framed by Li Linfu and was exiled, Wang Wei felt deeply politically sinister, so he half-official and half-hidden, playing the piano, painting, writing poems, and eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddha's name.
In 744 AD, Wang Wei bought the villa of Wangchuan, which originally belonged to Song Zhiwen in Zhongnanshan . After a little reconstruction, it became his paradise. According to the terrain, flowers, trees and stones were planted, pavilions and towers were built, and 20 landscapes including Mengchengao, Huazigang, Wenxingguan, Jinzhuling, Luchai, Mulan Chai, Zhuyupan, Gonghuaimo, Linhuting, Nan'an, Yanhuting, Liulang, Luanjiase, Jinxiquan, Baishitan, Bei'an, Zhuliguan, Xinyiwu, lacquer garden, , and Jiaoyuan.
Wangchuan Villa
In June 756 AD, An Lushan's rebels invaded Chang'an , and Wang Wei was captured. After being captured, he took laxatives to pretend to be dysentery , and also pretended to have a mute disease. But An Lushan did not let him go and forced him to accept the fake position given to the clerk.
After September 757 AD, Tang army successively recovered Chang'an and Luoyang . Wang Wei was taken into prison for being a fake official and died according to the law.
At this time, Wang Wei's younger brother Wang Jin came forward. requested to remove his title as his brother to atone for his sins, which made Wang Wei forgiven and was only demoted to the prince Zhongyun.
Why is Wang Jin so proud? Because he was a hero in suppressing the rebellion. At that time, he was the young emperor of Taiyuan, assisted Li Guangbi to defend Taiyuan, and had great achievements and strategies. He was promoted to Minister of Justice of the Ministry of Justice.
Tang Suzong During the Qianyuan period, Wang Wei was appointed as the Secretary of Shangshu , known as " Wang Youcheng ", and was about the fourth rank, and his official position was neither large nor small. But Wang Wei no longer has the intention to study Buddhism and appreciate the landscape.
In the spring of 761 AD, Wang Wei submitted a speech on " Responsible for Recommending My Brothers to Hit ", requesting that all his official positions be removed and released to the countryside, so that his younger brother Wang Jin could return to the capital. Wang Wei died in July at the age of 68. When he was dying, he wrote a text to say goodbye to his relatives and friends, and he passed away safely after he finished it.
When Wang Wei died, Wang Jin was still on the way back to the capital.
After returning to Beijing, Wang Jin had a successful career and served as prime minister twice. Like his brother, he believed in Buddhism and was vegetarian all his life, and even persuaded Emperor Daizong to believe in Buddhism.
Wang Jin's articles and poems are well written, but there are not many works passed down from generation to generation, and prose is only in the form of tables, steles, albums, etc. The style of the poem is similar to that of Wang Wei, and it is plain and fresh, such as the "-part " written by him after he went to his brother's Wangchuan villa one time. The poem says: The moon is still there in the mountains, and the wind is cold and cool in the forest. Attentiveness is like affection, and melancholy makes people feel different.
Wang Jin is also a great calligrapher, good at cursive script. He often helps others write inscriptions because he can get a considerable amount of money. Once, someone came to give him a payment for money, but accidentally knocked on Wang Wei's house. Wang Wei pointed to his brother's house and said, "The great writer is there."
In 781 AD, Wang Jin died at the age of 82.
Wangchuan Villa