A Comparative Study of the Four Aesthetic Explanations of Wang Wei's Late Landscape Poetry

Wang Wei's late landscape poetry is a very suitable specimen for reviewing the aesthetic experiences of the flourishing Tang literati.There were four important explanations of his poetry.Stephen Owen,who used metaphysical lyricism theory as his main methodology,thought that Wang's poetry had been something of metaphor.Wai-lim Yip put forward the theory of nature and pursued the aesthetic origin of the landscape poetry from the philosophy of Taoism.Xiao Chi thought that Tathagata Chan had given birth to Wang's late landscape poetry,and the inscape of which had been an intuitionistic frame of mind.Zhang Jiemo thought that not only the Zen perception of space but also the traditional perception had influenced Wang Wei,who had reached the level of both the pure-look and pure-listening,and it had been the phenomenological perception of space that had given birth to the inscape of Wang's late landscape poetry.