1, a seven-character old saying; Tang dynasty or Tang dynasty; Lithography; Wang Youcheng's collection.
2. I wrote five pictures around the word "return": cattle and sheep return to the lane, a rough old man in the thatched gate, pheasants calling partners, silkworms nesting, and farmers whispering. There are so many "returns" written in front, which is actually a contrast. Everyone has a return, which reflects that he has no return; Everyone returned home in time, cordial and comfortable, in stark contrast to his late retirement and loneliness and depression in officialdom. Poets use this to express their feelings of seclusion in the countryside.
The knowledge point of the first question is related to the category of ancient poetry. According to the meter, there are ancient poems (ancient poems) and metrical poems (modern poems), which are divided into four characters, five characters, seven characters and miscellaneous words according to the number of words. Therefore, from the meter and the number of words, a farmhouse on Weishui belongs to seven-character ancient poems (seven-character ancient poems). Wang Wei, whose mother is a devout Buddhist, and Vimalakīrti, a figure in the Buddhist classic Vimalakīrti Sutra, were both at home as bodhisattvas and Taoists in the Buddhist era, and were also key figures symbolizing the rise of Mahayana Buddhism.