Wang Wei was a Chinese scholar-official counted alongside [[Li Bai]], [[Du Fu]], and [[Bai Juyi]] as one of the greatest Chinese poets in history; Wang is also sometimes described as a paragon of the ideal Confucian scholar gentleman. | Wang Wei was a Chinese scholar-official counted alongside [[Li Bai]], [[Du Fu]], and [[Bai Juyi]] as one of the greatest Chinese poets in history; Wang is also sometimes described as a paragon of the ideal Confucian scholar gentleman. |