Wang Wei was a Chinese musician, painter, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty. He is regarded as one of the most distinguished men of arts and letters of his era. About 400 of his poems survived and 29 of them are included in the 18th-century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems. A large portion of his finest poems drew inspirations from the local landscape.
Riders on Horseback, Northern Qi dynasty, the general area of the rebel heartland, although of an earlier date
A modern picture from Mount Hua, in the Qinling Mountain Range, perhaps suggesting some of the area's wild and rugged features which still exist today, and that would have also been enjoyed by Wang Wei and his friends.
Photograph of Wang Wei's Snowy River. Formerly part of the Manchu Family Collection, Beijing, now lost.
Liangzhou District is a district and the seat of the city of Wuwei, Gansu province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the east.
Image: 甘肃省武威市凉州区 panoramio
Image: Tiantishan Grottoes 2015
Image: Wuwei Han Dynasty tombs IGP4632
Image: Wuwei Temple Luoshi IGP4558