Wei Ying-Wu marks a milestone in the development of local-government poetry writing tradition. The poet had grown his career as official since the age of twenty, in the volatile turmoil of the An-Shi Rebellion and the Zhu Ci Rebellion. He consciously wrote poems about his living experiences during his tenure as magistrates of Luoyang County and Hu County, provincial governors of Chuzhou, Jiangzhou, and Suzhou, and so on. By doing so, he pushed the development of local-government poetry to the peak. This article especially works on the concept of "being a recluse as an officer" arising from Wei's life in the local governments. It investigates the production process of the "officer recluse" awareness in the contexts of the general environment at that time and the poet's personal official career. Starting with the development of Wei's official career process, it discusses the "officer recluse" awareness born out of his worries about the situations of the day, his anguish of being an official, and his use of Buddhism in his term of office as magistrate of Hu County. Secondly, the article explains that his "officer recluse" awareness was matured by the poverty and desolation of the provinces and counties he ruled and the loneliness originating in the distance from his relatives and friends in his hometown. Finally expounded is the "officer reclusion space" he built in the local governments