| The landscape essay of the Southern Dynasties means the articles which describe the natural mountains and rivers in order to realize the aesthetic feeling of the landscape, created by scholars living in the period of the Southern Dynasties. It usually adopted parallel prose style or prose style. The landscape essay is a literature phenomenon that appeared when scholars of the Eastern Tsin Dynasty were conscious of the aesthetic perception of the landscape. It always displayed the shape of the mountains and waters, the images of natural substance and the place of cultural interest embellished in the landscape. Scholars also have expressed their worship of nature, admiration of secluded life, art and literature thought in essays.Exquisite depiction of landscape and magnificent language characterized the landscape essay of the Southern Dynasties. For applying the expression methods as imagination, decoration, exaggeration frequently, the landscape essay of the Southern Dynasties has something subjective in its artistic style. But there are some landscape essays adopted realistic style of describing mountains and waters with terse and lively language. These works have come up to high artistic standards.
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