Xie Lingyun, Chinese Poet
(385-433)




Just the Facts:
  • Name: Xie Lingyun
  • Also known as: Duke of Kangle
  • Birth: 385, Shangyu, Zhejiang, China
  • Death: 433, Guangzhou, China
  • Language: Chinese
  • Who he was: Chinese poet of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, particularly known for Chinese "wild" landscape (shanshui = "mountain-water") poetry

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