What is landscape poetry? What is pastoral poetry? Try to express your understanding

Pastoral poetry and landscape poetry are often called together, but they are two different types of subject matter. Pastoral poems will write about rural scenery, but the main part is about rural life, farmers and farming. Landscape poetry mainly writes about natural scenery and the poet's aesthetic appreciation of landscape objects, which is often associated with travel.

Landscape poetry originated from Xie Lingyun in the Southern Dynasty (Song Dynasty), and pastoral poetry originated from Tao Yuanming in the Jin Dynasty, represented by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran in the Tang Dynasty. This type of poetry is good at describing natural scenery, rural scenery, and comfortable and tranquil secluded life. The poetry is meaningful and beautiful, the style is quiet and elegant, the language is clear and concise, and the line drawing technique is mostly used.

Landscape and pastoral poetry belongs to the category of landscape poetry, focusing on singing the landscape and pastoral poetry in natural scenery. Landscape pastoral poetry formed a poetic monument in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. As for the counterexamples of landscape poetry, which are more numerous than landscape pastoral poetry, they are not very prominent. The excellent landscape and pastoral poems of ancient times are all artistic representations of the natural beauty of beautiful mountains and rivers, so they have strong artistic appeal and provide people with the enjoyment of beauty. The main characteristic of this type of poetry is that "all scenery language is love language", that is, the landscape and natural scenery described by the author are integrated into the author's subjective emotions, or use the scenery to express emotions, or the scenes blend. The main representative figures of landscape pastoral poetry include Xie Lingyun, Tao Yuanming, Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, Fan Chengda, Yang Wanli, etc. Li Bai, Du Fu, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, etc. also have a large number of excellent works describing landscapes.