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Xie Lingyun was a descendant of two of the most important families of the later Eastern Jin times, the Xie and the Wang families. [1] His paternal grandfather was the general Xie Xuan, a general who is best known for repelling the Former Qin army at the Battle of Fei River, thus preventing the Former Qin emperor Fu Jiān from destroying Jin, and thus allowing the continuation of the southern ...
Xie Lingyun (385–433) was considered a progenitor and major exponent of nature or landscape poetry focusing on the "mountain and streams", as opposed to Tao Yuanming and the "field and garden" type of Chinese landscape poetry. His poetry is allusive and complex, and uses a lot of imagery of hills and nature.
Xie Lingyun is the best-known poet of the Liu Song period and is generally considered one of the greatest of the entire Six Dynasties period, second only to Tao Yuanming. In contrast Tao, Xie is known for difficult language, dense allusions, and frequent parallelisms. [ 32 ]
In contrast to his older contemporary Tao, Xie is known for the difficult language, dense allusions, and frequent parallelisms of his poetry. [25] Xie's greatest fu is "Fu on Dwelling in the Mountains" (Shān jū fù 山居賦), a Han-style "grand fu" describing Xie's personal estate that borrows its style from the famous "Fu on the Imperial ...
Xie Tiao (traditional Chinese: 謝朓; simplified Chinese: 谢朓; pinyin: Xiè Tiào; style name: Xuan Hui (玄辉)) (464–499) was the leading Southern Qi poet of the Yongming reign. [ 1 ] He was known as "Xiao Xie" (that is, "Little Xie") in comparison with Xie Lingyun .
Landscapes in the Manner of Old Masters (in the manner of Wang Wei). Album leaf. Dong Qichang. 1621-24. The Wangchuan ji (simplified Chinese: 辋川 集; traditional Chinese: 輞川 集; pinyin: Wǎngchuān jí; Wade–Giles: Wang-ch'uan) is a collection of Tang poetry written by the two poets Wang Wei and Pei Di, also known by other names, such as the Wheel River Collection or Wang River ...
Notes [ edit ] ^ Minford, John, and Joseph S. M. Lau, Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations , New York: Columbia University Press ISBN 0-231-09676-3 and Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press ISBN 962-201-625-1 , 2000
433 – Xie Lingyun died (born 385), Chinese poet; 451 – Jacob of Serugh born (died November 521), writing in Syriac; 455 – Blossius Aemilius Dracontius born about this year (died 505) of Carthage, Latin poet; 474 – Magnus Felix Ennodius born (died July 17, 521), Bishop of Pavia and Latin poet