– c. 792), courtesy name Yibo (義博), art name Xizhai (西齋), was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty.
[2][4] According to John C. H. Wu, the turbulence and lack of strong central leadership of China during Wei Yingwu's poetry-writing years was a major influence upon his work.
[5] Wei Yingwu was strongly influenced by the 5th-century poet Tao Yuanming, whose poems reflect his indifference to the world.
Wei Yingwu's most praised poetry consists of the five-character poems (五言) prominent during the Tang era.
The majority of Wei Yingwu's poems depict various nature scenes, such as mountains and rivers, consistent with the mountains-and-rivers style of landscape poetry (山水).