Wang Wei and Meng Haoran inherited the tradition of landscape poetry of Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun, and formed a school of landscape pastoral poetry that complements the frontier poetry school. There is not a poet in the Tang Dynasty who doesn't write natural landscape poems. There are many poets who are famous for their landscape poems in Tang Dynasty, but Meng Haoran, Wang Wei and Li Bai are the main ones who can represent the maturity of landscape poems.
The pastoral poems after the Song Dynasty are refreshing in terms of poetic language, lyricism, concreteness, scenery description and narration, but the realm of landscape poems lags far behind that of the Tang Dynasty.
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After the formation of landscape poems, although they constantly seek the development of external space and the perfection of internal system, and have new styles and postures in different times, the life interest and artistic spirit of Taoism and Buddhism have always run through the development of landscape poems. With the prosperity of Tang poetry, landscape poetry has become spectacular.
Wang Wei and Meng Haoran inherited the tradition of landscape poetry of Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun, and formed a school of landscape pastoral poetry that complements the frontier poetry school. There is not a poet in the Tang Dynasty who doesn't write natural landscape poems. There are many poets who are famous for their landscape poems in Tang Dynasty, but Meng Haoran, Wang Wei and Li Bai are the main ones who can represent the maturity of landscape poems.
The pastoral poems after the Song Dynasty are refreshing in terms of poetic language, lyricism, concreteness, scenery description and narration, but the realm of landscape poems lags far behind that of the Tang Dynasty.