Xie Lingyun, a state-owned writer in Southern Song Dynasty, was a famous landscape poet in ancient China. He suffered many political setbacks, so he became attached to the landscape and wrote a lot of landscape poems, which was as famous as another scholar at that time, Yan Yanzhi, and was called "the first in Jiangdong". [2] ? His poems mostly describe the scenic spots in Guangxi, Yongjia and Lushan, and are good at depicting natural scenery, creating a school of landscape poems in the history of literature. His poems are very artistic, paying special attention to formal beauty, and are very popular among scholars. As soon as this poem came out, people scrambled to copy it and it was widely circulated. Song Wendi appreciated his literary talent and specially recalled him to Kyoto, calling his poems and calligraphy "two treasures", and often asked him to write poems and compositions while serving banquets. Xie Lingyun, who is crazy and arrogant, once lamented when drinking: "There is only one stone in the world (one unit of capacity, one stone is equal to ten buckets), and Cao Zijian (that is, Cao Zhi) has eight buckets. I want to fight a bucket, and I have to fight it all the time." This means that all the talents in the world are not in his eyes, and only Cao is outstanding and can make him sincerely impressed.
Therefore, later generations called this outstanding scholar "a man of great talent" or "a man of eight fights" For example, there is a sentence in Li Shangyin's "Alas" in the Tang Dynasty: "Fu Fei is worried about sitting in the pavilion of knowing heaven and exhausting Wang Chen's talents." In Tang's "Offering Assistant Minister Yang Neihan", there are: "Wen Xia kept his mouth shut, and only gave me gossip eight times" and so on.