Xie Lingyun, a state-owned writer in Southern Song Dynasty, was a famous landscape poet in ancient China. His poems mostly describe the scenic spots in Huiji, 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 his poems came out, people scrambled to copy them and spread them widely.
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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 has always been pretentious, is even more arrogant after receiving this courtesy. On one occasion, while drinking, he boasted: Since Wei and Jin Dynasties, there has been a stone of literary talent in the world, among which Cao Zijian (that is, Cao Zhi) monopolized eight fights, and I also wanted to fight, and the rest of the world had one.