Portrait of Xie Lingyun
China's poetry has always been based on freehand brushwork, and rarely describes poetry with things as the theme. Before that, Tao Yuanming was a famous pastoral poet and an outstanding freehand brushwork poet. For Tao Yuanming, writing poetry is just an expression of life, so there are not so many words describing mountains and rivers in his poems, mainly based on the blending of scenes. In the hands of Xie Lingyun, landscape poetry began to take shape formally. The beauty of Sheung Shui has become the theme of poetry, and realism has become the center of the whole poem. Xie Lingyun spared no effort to the beautiful scenery, sketching out every detail and every beautiful beauty in the landscape and presenting it to the readers again.
Xie Lingyun's landscape poems were fresh and elegant, which caused a great sensation at that time. Only then did I know that poetry writing could be like this. This new feature of gradually disappearing melody and wide range began to become the trend of poetry creation at that time, which influenced the poetic style of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and even had a certain impact on the later prosperous Tang Dynasty. At the same time, because Xie Lingyun's poems pay more attention to the description of scenery and are independent of the poet's emotions, they can't reach the realm of blending scenes like some poems. At the same time, they also have their own styles and characteristics in structure. Generally speaking, people write about their travels first, then what they see and hear, and finally express their feelings, forming a unique pattern, which is naturally suspected of procrastination, so Xie Lingyun's poems have also been criticized.
Generally speaking, Xie Lingyun made a great contribution to the creation and prosperity of landscape poetry, making landscape poetry an independent form of poetry after the Southern Dynasties, which had a far-reaching impact on later generations.
The characteristics of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems are well known. Xie Lingyun is an important poet in the history of China. Before him, landscape appeared as an ornament of poetry, and he was the first person to create on a large scale with landscape as the theme. He used exquisite and delicate words to integrate the beauty of nature into his poems, which is an important pioneer of China's landscape poems. Here is a brief analysis of the characteristics of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems.
The scenery of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems
First of all, the Wei and Jin Dynasties were the times when metaphysics flourished, and the creation of landscape poems was also carried out in the way of metaphysics. Landscape is a prop used by poets to appreciate the interest of metaphysics, and Xie Lingyun himself has good attainments in the field of Buddhism in Laozi and Zhuangzi, so the word Buddhism and Taoism often appears in his poems. Therefore, it can be said that Xie Lingyun's landscape poems did not jump out of the shackles of the times in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and were still deeply branded with metaphysics. But it is worthy of recognition that there are few abrupt metaphysical words in his landscape poems. Basically, Hyunri is well integrated with the scenery, so it is not vague at all.
From the artistic features, Xie Lingyun is beautiful, and the simple scene presents a beautiful artistic conception through his description. Some of these artistic conceptions are exquisite and refined, some are profound and beautiful, and so on, which makes readers immersive. Later generations often mentioned when praising his landscape poems: If clear water produces hibiscus, it is naturally lovely. It can be seen that the most important artistic feature of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems is fresh and natural, without flowery words and artificial sentences. After careful tasting, they appear more pure and natural.
Looking at many of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems, although due to the limitations of the times at that time, some of them may appear to be neglected in tailoring and inadequate in preparation, paying too much attention to the blending of Hyunri, and some of them are obscure, but their flaws are not concealed. Many of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems still occupy a place in the history of China's poetry with their beautiful and refined style.