A calm and detached personality. Xie Tiao shows a quite comfortable and detached character in his works. He seems to be an immortal who has nothing to do with the world.
Xie Tiao's poetic style is famous for its freshness, elegance and elegance, and his words are delicate, beautiful and skillful. Some of his poems imitate Xie Lingyun, such as "Mountain Tour" and "Jingting Mountain Tour", all of which lay out the scenery.
Xie Tiao also often described the scenery seen from the window or desk. The landscapes he wrote were mostly connected with the urban buildings. The scenery in the poems had a picturesque composition of flat distance, with a high level of distance and distance.
For example, "Winter Evening in the County" successively moves from the pool in front of the door and the bamboo outside the window to the distant mountains and flat land outside the window, using words such as "up", "ji" and "middle" to highlight the orientation between the scenery. relationship, and can skillfully use the verb "to bring", such as "剉剧远天" and "Qingchuan brings Changmo", which highlights the dynamic between Weiyan and Qingchuan that seems to be born from the sway of pen and ink, so it has been evaluated as "there is a painting in the poem" .
His achievements:
The main achievement of Xie Tiao's poetry is the creation of landscape poems. Xie Tiao, with his clear, flowing, meticulous and natural poetry, described the landscape of southern Anhui with Xuancheng as the center, pioneered and developed the landscape poetry since Xie Lingyun, and exerted a good influence on later Tang poetry.
Xie Tiao and Xie Lingyun are collectively known as "Two Xies". They are both good at modeling mountains and rivers and are good at landscape poetry, but their poetic realm and poetic taste are different. Xie Lingyun's landscape poems are still somewhat influenced by metaphysical poetry, and they always have a bit of metaphysics and still have some metaphysical color; Xie Tiao's landscape poems express thoughts and feelings, and the influence of metaphysical poetry has been completely eliminated.
Xie Tiao's landscape poems naturally combine describing scenery and expressing emotions. He floated in the political whirlpool and witnessed the dangers of official career and the darkness of reality. Therefore, he often expressed his worries about official career and the depression of life through the description of scenery.