Xie Lingyun, born in Chenxia County, was a minister from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to Liu Song Dynasty, a Buddhist and traveler, the son of the originator of landscape poetry school, and his mother was Wang Xizhi's granddaughter Liu.
Born in Xie family of Chen county, born in Huiji county. In the second year of Emperor Yuan Xing of Jin 'an, he attacked Kangle County. Fu began to join the army, and served as the army, bookkeeper, Qiu and assistant minister of Huangmen. After the establishment of Liu and Song Dynasties, he was promoted to the post of Hou of Kangle County, where he served as a regular servant for scattered riders. Prince left protection rate, Yongjia prefect, secretary supervisor and Linchuan prefect.
Xie Lingyun is young, studious, well-read and good at writing articles. His poems are as famous as Yan Yanzhi's, and he is also called Xie Yan. He was the first poet who devoted himself to creating landscape poems. He is also well versed in history, good at calligraphy, translating Buddhist scriptures, and has written Jin books such as Xie Ji.
Xie Lingyun's landscape poems created a new realm of China's landscape literature. On the basis of his experience in writing landscapes in previous literary works, he creatively applied various artistic expressions to landscape poems. In his landscape poems, landscape poems are full of novelty and even strangeness, deep or shallow landscapes, presenting readers with poetry that is like real life but beyond real life.