The Wang River Sequence (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wang Wei
- First Published: 740
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Nature, Friendship, Rivers or waterways, Trees, China or Chinese people, Mountains, Aesthetics, Autumn
The Poem
The Wangchuan (literally “twirling stream”), or Wang River, is a river at the foothills of the Chung-nan-shan mountain range in Lan-t’ien, about thirty miles south of the capital Ch’ang-an (now Xi’an, Shaanxi Province). The range has long been a celebrated sanctuary for recluses. Wang Wei lived there on and off for more than two decades in an estate that he called the “Twirling Stream Country House.”
The estate became the favorite subject of Wang Wei’s painting and poetry. Not long after the acquisition, he and his good friend P’ei Ti...
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