The originator of landscape poetry is Xie Lingyun in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The landscape poetry initiated by Xie Lingyun introduced natural beauty into poetry, making landscape poetry an independent aesthetic object. His creation not only liberated poetry from Hyunri, but also strengthened the artistic skills and expressive force of poetry, which influenced the poetic style of a generation.
The appearance of landscape poems not only made landscape an independent aesthetic object, but also added a theme to China's poems and opened up a new poetic style in the Southern Dynasties. Following Tao Yuanming's pastoral poetry, landscape poetry marks the further communication and harmony between man and nature, and marks the emergence of a new natural aesthetic concept and aesthetic interest.
A large number of landscape poems appeared in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, mainly due to the chaotic national conditions at that time. Almost all the scribes who moved eastward lamented that "the scenery is different and the mountains and rivers are different". In addition, they are persecuted by political violence and military violence, and their sense of loss is getting heavier and heavier. It is an effective way to seek comfort and relief from the scenery in South America, so it will become a habit and become a common practice to wander around and write landscape poems. In addition, under the impact of new philosophical thoughts such as metaphysics, the ideological control of "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucius alone" has become increasingly weak and relaxed since the Han Dynasty, so there have been propositions such as "teaching more and letting nature take its course" (Ji Kang) and "learning from nature" (Ruan Ji). "Nature" refers to the natural law of the universe, and the unchanging mountains and water fully and perfectly embody this law, becoming the object of learning for others and the inexhaustible source of spiritual strength.