The emergence of metaphysical poetry is closely connected with the reality at that time. The Jin Dynasty moved to the south and settled on the left side of the Yangtze River. The merger of Zen and metaphysics further strengthened the penetration of metaphysics into literature, and metaphysical poetry gradually dominated the poetry world of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The metaphysical school of poetry, represented by Sun Chuo and Xu Xun, talks about mystical principles without meaning. This kind of theory is too rhetorical and tasteless. Mysterious poems that are "plain like moral theory" have dominated the poetry world for a hundred years. It was not until the emergence of Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty that they injected new vitality into the poetry world of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and brought about In the new changes, Tao Yuanming with his pastoral poems and Xie Lingyun with his landscape poems each opened up a new field for the Chinese poetry world, showing a major breakthrough in ancient Chinese poetry from subject matter to style, and made indelible contributions to the development and prosperity of poetry. .