Liu Zongyuan's two main types of poems are

The two main types of Liu Zongyuan's poems are pastoral poems and relegated poems.

Landscape pastoral poetry:

One of the ancient Chinese poems. Xie Lingyun and Tao Yuanming, who originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, are represented by Wang Wei in the Tang Dynasty and Yang Wanli in the Song Dynasty. This kind of poetry is good at describing natural scenery, pastoral scenery and comfortable seclusion. Poetry and painting are meaningful and beautiful, the style is quiet and elegant, the language is beautiful and refined, and the line drawing technique is used.

Poets such as Tao Yuanming formed the pastoral school in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, poets such as Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao formed the landscape school in the Southern Dynasties, and poets such as Wang Wei and Meng Haoran formed the pastoral school in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The poet takes landscape and countryside as aesthetic objects, and throws delicate brushstrokes into quiet mountains and leisurely fields to create an idyllic life to express his dissatisfaction with reality and his yearning for a quiet and peaceful life.

After the formation of landscape poems, although they constantly seek the development of external space and the perfection of internal system, and have new styles and postures in different times, the life interest and artistic spirit of Taoism and Buddhism have always run through the development of landscape poems.

With the prosperity of Tang poetry, landscape poetry has become spectacular. Wang Wei and Meng Haoran inherited the tradition of landscape poetry of Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun, and formed a school of landscape pastoral poetry that complements the frontier poetry school. There is not a poet in the Tang Dynasty who doesn't write natural landscape poems.

Exiled poems:

Demotion, ancient officials were demoted or exiled to places far from the capital because of negligence or crime. In ancient China, the highest ideal of intellectuals was to be an official, which is the so-called "being an official with knowledge".

Indeed, "learning to be excellent is the main way for ancient intellectuals to realize their ideals and values in life." The problem is that once they become officials by studying, they will go into the ups and downs of the official sea, and they will be in danger of being relegated if they are not careful. As a result, a special group of literati appeared in history, that is, officials who were relegated because of frustration in participating in politics. Of course, the situation of demoted officials varies widely.