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Wang Wei
- Qin Shi Bu #72 |
王維 1
琴史補 #82 2 |
Wang Wei (701 - 761) was one of China's most famous poets. One of his poems provided lyrics for one of the most popular of all qin melodies, Yangguan Sandie.)
Ronald Egan in his article "Music, Sadness and the Qin"3 writes that Wang Wei mentions the qin four times in his poetry. However, Qinshu Daquan does not seem to include any of these.
Qinshu Daquan references Wang Wei as follows.
The Qinshi Bu biography is as follows,4
His lofty ideas were like this. In his later years he 長齋禪誦 went on long fasts with meditative chants. One day he suddenly took up his pen and wrote several pages saying goodbye to his younger brother 王縉 Wang Jin (d. 781) and all his close friends, and so he cast aside his pen and died.
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Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a
separate page)
1 21295.1668 王維,祁人,字摩詰...also called 王右丞 Wang Youcheng (Return)
4 Sources given: 舊唐書 Jiu Tang Shu; 王右丞集 Wang Youcheng Ji [21295.311 Wang Wei's Collected Works]; 蓴湖漫錄 Chunhu Manlu . (Return)