Adapted from "Spring grass grows in the pond and willow becomes a songbird", it is a famous sentence in Xie Lingyun's "Pond Upstairs". The image is fresh and natural, full of spring. Yuan Haowen advocates natural poetry and opposes carving and whitewashing, so he praises Xie Lingyun's famous sentence here, which is always new.
Xie Lingyun (385 ~ 433), with a well-founded and clever word, was named posthumous title. Born in Taikang County (now Henan Province), he was a minister, Buddhist scholar and traveler from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Liu Song Dynasty, the son of Xie Cheng, the founder and secretary of the Landscape Poetry School, and his mother was Liu, the granddaughter of Wang Xizhi.
Born in Xie family of Chen county, born in Huiji county (now Shaoxing city). In the second year of Emperor Yuan Xing of Jin 'an (403), the duke of Kangle was captured. Fu (Sima) began to join the army, and successively served as Fu Jun (), Qiu (Emperor Wu of Song) and Huangmen Assistant Minister in Zhongshu. After the establishment of the Liu and Song Dynasties, Ren Kangle County was appointed as a regular servant. Prince left protection rate, Yongjia prefect, secretary supervisor and Linchuan prefect. In the 10th year of Yuanjia in Song Wendi (433), he was executed for "treason" at the age of 49.
Xie Lingyun is young, studious, well-read and good at writing articles. His poems are as famous as Yan Yanzhi's, and he is also called "Xie Yan". He was the first poet who devoted himself to creating landscape poems. He is also proficient in history, good at calligraphy, translating Buddhist scriptures, and has the Book of Jin, a collection with Xie.