What are the essential differences between Meng Haoran and Xie Lingyun's landscape poems?

However, Xie Lingyun was the first poet who devoted himself to creating landscape poems. There are nearly 100 poems, of which 38 can be regarded as relatively complete landscape poems. Landscape poetry flourished in Jin and Song Dynasties, and its contribution was first promoted by Xie Lingyun.

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 poetic "nature" like the real scene but beyond the real scene.

At the same time, because Xie Lingyun's landscape poems aim at "expressing ambition", natural landscape is the carrier of his expression of emotions, which always contains the author's subjective feelings. Thus, the unique natural and humanistic charm of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems is formed.

In Meng Haoran's view, the image in his landscape poems is no longer a description of the original landscape, nor a simple addition of his personal feelings, but a kind of expression technique, which combines the description of landscape images with the display of his thoughts, feelings and temperament, thus making the image description in his landscape poems reach an unprecedented height and raising the image in his landscape poems to an advanced artistic image form, that is, "image". It can be said that before Meng Haoran, no poet's landscape poems could touch the author's personality so deeply.