The originator of landscape poetry is Xie Lingyun, and the originator of pastoral poetry is Tao Yuanming. Xie Lingyun was a poet in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. His major masterpieces include Climbing the Pool and Going upstairs, Entering the Lake Mouth of Peng Li and so on. Tao Yuanming was an idyllic poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was known as the "Sect of hermit poets". His main masterpieces include Biography of Mr. Wuliu and Peach Blossom Garden.
Introduction of the School of Landscape Poetry
The School of Landscape Poetry appeared in the Southern Dynasties and the Song Dynasty in China. Xie Lingyun was the first poet who created the School of Landscape Poetry and was regarded as the originator of the School of Landscape Poetry. In the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, the gentry expressed their love for mountains and rivers and visited scenic spots, and some famous sentences about scenery writing began to appear in their metaphysical poems. When Xie Lingyun was frustrated in his official career, he expressed his love for mountains and rivers, deliberately explored and innovated in this respect and wrote a large number of landscape poems.
Introduction of Pastoral School
Pastoral School originated from Tao Yuanming in Jin Dynasty, taking landscape and pastoral as aesthetic objects, and was good at describing natural scenery, rural scenery and quiet seclusion, represented by Wang Wei, Meng Haoran in Tang Dynasty and Yang Wanli in Song Dynasty. Pastoral poets express their dissatisfaction with reality and yearning for a quiet and peaceful life.