Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao were both poets in the Southern Dynasties of China. They were both very influential landscape poets.
From a blood relationship point of view, Xie Lingyun is Xie Xuan's direct grandson, and Xie Tiao is a descendant of Xie An's brother, so Xie Lingfu is Xie Tiao's clan uncle. In terms of poetry style, Xie Lingyun is one of the originators of landscape poetry, and Xie Tiao inherited and developed Xie Lingyun's style, and created a new style on this basis, which made a great contribution to the development of landscape poetry, so He was called "Big Xie" by later generations.
In general, Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao are both important poets in the history of Chinese literature, and their poetic works have made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese landscape poetry.