Landscape pastoral poetry school is represented by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, so it is also called Wang Meng poetry school. With an open mind and profound and sensitive aesthetic feelings, they described the magnificence of landscapes, praised the leisure and tranquility of rural life, and reflected the social stability, farmers' living and working in peace and contentment and the cheerful and optimistic spirit of the times in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Besides Wang Meng, there were many other pastoral poets in the Tang Dynasty, such as Chu Guangxi, Chang Jian, Qiu Wei and Pei Di. And later, Liu Changqing, and other pastoral poets have a high level. Of course, in the late Tang and Song Dynasties, there were more pastoral poets.
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The poetic school represented by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran formed in the prosperous Tang Dynasty is also called pastoral school. In order to highlight its outstanding role in the pastoral poetry school, later generations also called it "Wang Meng Poetry School". This school is as long as the poems of Tao Yuanming and Schell (Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao), with pastoral scenery and secluded life as the main theme, and its style dilutes nature.
Meng Haoran's poems got rid of the narrow realm of chanting things in Lu and Tang Dynasties, expressed more personal hugs, brought fresh breath to Kaiyuan poetry circle and won the admiration of people at that time. Meng Haoran was the first poet who wrote landscape poems in the Tang Dynasty and the forerunner of Wang Wei. His travels are vividly described, and Dongting Lake's letter to Premier Zhang is magnificent.
He is good at exploring the beauty of nature and life, immediately understanding the scene and writing his true feelings at the moment. For example, Qiu Deng Wan Shan sends Zhang Wu, Summer is in the South Pavilion, Guo Zhuang, Night Sleeping in Jiande, Night Song of Deer Gate, etc. , naturally become muddleheaded, but the artistic conception is clear and full of charm.
In Meng Haoran's view, the images in landscape poems are no longer descriptions of the original landscape, nor are they simply adding their own emotions. Instead, it combines the description of landscape images with the display of one's own thoughts and feelings by means of expression, so that the images in his landscape poems are upgraded to the advanced form of artistic images, that is,' images'.
The overall feature of Wang Wei's pastoral poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty is that there are paintings in the poems and poems in the paintings. Completely integrate the beauty of nature with the beauty of artistic conception, and create a pure and beautiful poetic realm that is inseparable like a hidden mirror flower. He is good at capturing the light and color of natural things in dynamics, and shows extremely rich colors and layering in his poems. For example, in "Send Swallows to Guizhou", "The rivers and lakes are white at sunset, and the tide rises."
Among the poets in the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei can be said to be an all-rounder, and his poems have various styles, so that in the Collection of Tang Poems in the Ming Dynasty, Gao Kun said: Wang Wei is a famous scholar in the Five-Seven Dynasties, Wang Wei is an authentic one in the Five-Seven Laws and Five Musts, and Wang Wei is the wing of the Seven Musts. In fact, Wang Wei's six-character poems and seven-character songs are outstanding achievements.
It can be said that it is a major feature of Wang Wei's poetry to express the poet's feelings with such short sentences full of life breath and picture sense. In his poems, there is something refreshing, which can be said to be a song by Buchan, or "there is a picture in the poem and a poem in the picture". In short, it gives people a spiritual space that is detached from the world.