His career was not uneventful, however, and included demotion, exile, and forced service under the usurper An Lu-shan. His long official career began immediately thereafter with his appointment as assistant director of the Imperial Directorate of Music at the time of his death in 759, he directed the administration of 12 departments in the ministries of war, justice, and works. In 717 he won first place in the metropolitan examination in preparation for a government career, and in 719 he was awarded the highest degree in the examination system, the chin-shih. Because the traditional family seat was in T'aiyüan, Shansi, Wang Wei is usually called a native of T'aiyüan.īy the age of 15, Wang Wei was a skillful poet and musician. He was born in P'u-chou (the present Fen-yang county in Shansi Province) into a family which had contributed 13 prime ministers to the T'ang court. Wang Wei was also called Mo-chieh (or ch'i, the name Wei-moch'i being a transliteration of the Sanskrit name Vimalakirti, the great lay disciple of Buddha) and Yuch'eng (assistant minister of the right, after his last government position). He was also regarded by later critics as the founder of the Southern school of landscape painting. The Chinese poet and painter Wang Wei (699-759) was one of the greatest poets of the golden age of Chinese poetry, the T'ang dynasty, 618-907.
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