Wang Wei (701-761), named Mojie, was a native of Puzhou (now Yongji County, Shanxi). He was a precocious writer who was known for his talents at the age of nine. At the age of nineteen, he went to the capital to take the examination and won the first place in the imperial examination. He became a Jinshi at the age of twenty-one. He once served as an envoy to the fortress and served in the government most of the time. During the Anshi Rebellion, he was arrested and imprisoned in Bodhi Temple. He pretended to be ill. During the Anshi Rebellion, he was punished for flattering a thief official. Because he had written poems and sent poems to express his feelings, he was only punished by being demoted. Later he became the Minister of the Book of History, Youcheng.

Wang Wei's achievements in poetry are multi-faceted. Whether it is frontier fortresses, landscape poems, rhymed poems, quatrains, etc., there are all excellent poems that have been passed down to the public. Wang Wei is also a famous painting master. Su Shi said of him: "There are paintings in poems, and poems in paintings." Wang Wei indeed has his unique attainments in describing natural scenery. Whether it is the magnificence of famous mountains and rivers, the grandeur and desolation of frontiers and fortresses, or the tranquility of small bridges and flowing water, they can accurately and concisely create a perfect and vivid image, without much ink, lofty artistic conception, complete poetry and painting. Integrated into a whole, he wrote twenty-eight volumes of "Wang Youcheng Collection".