In the early song dynasty, prose was used to sing and change the style. Zhuang Lao excused himself, but the landscape was graceful and restrained.
During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, landscape poems appeared in China ancient poetry circles. Metaphysical poetry prevailed at first, and then Xie Lingyun and others started a school of "landscape poetry".
The so-called "Zhuang Lao" not only refers to the metaphysical thought dominated by Zhuang Lao, but also refers to the metaphysical poems that explain metaphysics. "Exculpatory" corresponds to "Fang Zi", which is a gradual process, an internalization process of metaphysics and a gradual dilution process of metaphysical poems. Moreover, "excusing oneself" is only a superficial dilution in the field of poetry, not the disappearance of literati life or the whole social trend of thought.
Celebrities in Wei and Jin Dynasties obviously adopted abstract philosophical thoughts or vivid poems when facing the same life theme. Therefore, the mutual transformation between metaphysics and poetry has become a natural thing. Metaphysical poetry is a school of poetry in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and its general concept is a kind of poetry with the main content of explaining Laozi, Zhuangzi and Buddhist philosophy.
On the one hand, the prosperity of metaphysical poetry in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is the result of the prosperity of metaphysics and clear talk in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, on the other hand, it is also related to the political situation in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and its formed scholar mentality. The development of metaphysical poems in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is closely related to Buddhist parades. Buddhist mentality: the combination of mystery and explanation, concealment and adaptation, following the explanations of nature and Hyunri. Because most metaphysical poems are "exaggerated and tasteless" ("Preface to Poetry"), they lack artistic image and sincere feelings, and their literary value is not high, so most of their works are lost.