What is the origin of climbing poems?

During the Six Dynasties, due to the rise of landscape poems, works with mountain climbing as the theme appeared widely in poetry collections. These poems are mainly about climbing mountains, stairs, going on stage or climbing stairs. Climbing stairs is a common activity of ancient literati, and what they saw and heard when climbing stairs was written into poems.

The Evolution of Rising Images in the History of Poetry

The multiple meanings of mountain climbing images are gradually enriched and perfected with the development of poetry. The so-called image refers to "an ideographic image that aims at expressing philosophical thoughts, takes symbolism or absurdity as its basic characteristics, and reaches the ideal state of human aesthetics." It is not only an advanced form of conceptual image, but also one of the advanced forms of literary images such as typical artistic conception.