The establishment of the classic subject “pictureevoking poetry” possesses a double significance to the reception history of Wang Wei’s poetry. The subject did mark a great progress to expanding Wang’s cultural influence and deeply understand the features of his art of poetry writing. Meanwhile, however, it intensified and deepened estrangement and alienation between traditional poetic theory and Wang’s poetry. Hence a farther and farther distance between Wang’s poetry and traditional poetic model standards.

“pictureevoking poetry”; Wang Wei; poetic model; reception history of poetry; literature in the Tang Dynasty