"Literature carries Tao" and "Poetry expresses ambition" means that articles are used to describe and clarify truth or ideas, and poems are used to express their aspirations and interests; This sentence emphasizes the different expressions and functions of articles and poems. Articles are mainly used to explain truth and thoughts, while poetry pays more attention to expressing emotions and aspirations.
Shanju Fu is an essay by Xie Lingyun, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. This article describes a person's secluded life with the scale of Han Fu, and its stylistic innovation lies in its self-annotation with the style of prose poetry. Some annotations describing landscapes are smart, cordial and natural, which contributed to the rise of later prose landscape travel notes.