Wang Wei, courtesy name Mojie, 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. 699 – 761; died at about 62. Alive at the same time as Charlemagne, Abū Ḥanīfa, Li Bai, Du Fu, and Jabir ibn Hayyan. Wiki link