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.
The achievements of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems depend largely on the efforts of "carving". The "carving" of Xie Lingyun's landscape poems is a meticulous imitation of nature. Xie Lingyun added his own subjective color in the process of mimicry, which made the landscape present a unique appearance that originated from reality but was different from reality.
Xie Lingyun's poetic achievements
Xie Lingyun and his landscape poems had a great influence in Liu and Song Dynasties. Shen Yue, Xie Shu and others inherited and developed them, and promoted the gradual improvement of landscape poems. Xie Shi's poetic language is rich, delicate and close to nature, and he pursues a detailed description of the scenery, which has an exemplary role for later poets' poetic language and scenery writing skills.