Wang Wei
Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman
- Lived
- 699–761
- Country
- Tang dynasty
Updated September 2026
About Wang Wei
Wang Wei, courtesy name Mojie, was a Chinese musician, painter, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty. He is regarded as one of the most distinguished men of arts and letters of his era. About 400 of his poems survived and 29 of them are included in the 18th-century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems. A large portion of his finest poems drew inspirations from the local landscape.
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