Representative landscape poets in the history of Chinese poetry include Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, Liu Changqing, Wei Yingwu, Chu Guangxi, Chang Jian, etc.
Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, manors of wealthy landlords have emerged. Due to the social unrest in the late Han Dynasty, some Qingliu literati gradually left their official careers and moved to their countryside. On the other hand, some scholars were forced to wander between worldly pursuit of utilitarianism and personal harm to the whole body, and this gave rise to the trend of seclusion.
This poetry genre appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty of China. The master who founded the landscape poetry school was Xie Lingyun. His landscape poems followed the creative path of mixing landscapes into poetry from Shu Xie, breaking the situation where "Xuanyan" poetry dominated the poetry world in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He became the first person to create a large number of landscape poems, and was respected as the "Landscape Poetry School" The originator.
In fact, before that, in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, the gentry paid great attention to the mountains and rivers and visited famous places. Some famous lines describing the scenery began to appear in their Xuanyan poems, using the natural philosophy of Lao and Zhuang to praise the mountains and rivers of the south of the Yangtze River. For example, Sun Chuo's "Orchid Pavilion Poems" and Xie Hun's "You Xichi" contain a large number of elements of landscape poetry.
In the early Song Dynasty, Xie Lingyun, Xie Hun’s nephew, failed in his official career, so he fell in love with landscapes and deliberately pioneered and innovated in this area. He wrote a large number of landscape poems, such as "Climbing the Pond and Going Up the Tower", "Enter Pengli Hukou" and so on finally made the description of landscape independent from Xuanyan poetry, thereby establishing the dominant position of landscape poetry in the gentry poetry world.
Since then, landscape poetry has become a poetry genre that people often create. Until Wang Wei and Meng Haoran in the Tang Dynasty, the creation of landscape poetry reached an unprecedented peak.
The poetry of landscapes is the poetry of nature. When you read it, you feel calm and contented. Reading poetry is like visiting the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers in person. There are paintings in the poems and poems in the paintings. Accompanying the poet's footsteps, he travels through the majestic and beautiful mountains and rivers of the motherland, enjoying the beauty of the world and the various flavors of life. Contained in it are not only the beautiful scenery of distant mountains and rivers, but also the poetic life spanning thousands of years.
The Landscape Poetry School is a major poetry school founded by Xie Lingyun, a great poet in the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty. It broke the proliferation of metaphysical poetry and has progressive significance in the history of literature and poetry. This type of poetry takes mountains, rivers and nature as the main description object. It is good at managing the painting environment, using the subject's sensory feelings to express natural scenery, and often uses the scenery to express emotions, thereby making the scenery come alive.