Lin Shu's travelogues on landscapes occupy an important place in his ancient writings, which are diverse in content and extensively learnt from the travelogue styles of his predecessors, especially those of Liu Zongyuan and Ouyang Xiu. Lin Shu's landscape travelogue prose is unique, and deserves careful consideration, both in terms of landscape description techniques and innovative literary theories. This paper analyses Lin Shu's travelogue works in the light of his theory of mood, and argues that this kind of prose embodies a leisurely and elegant literati temperament and a thick cultural atmosphere based on Lin Shu's personal sentiment, and that the artistic presentation of the work is also highly accomplished.

Lin Shu's travelogues on landscapes occupy an important place in his ancient writings, which are diverse in content and extensively learnt from the travelogue styles of his predecessors, especially those of Liu Zongyuan and Ouyang Xiu. Lin Shu's landscape travelogue prose is unique, and deserves careful consideration, both in terms of landscape description techniques and innovative literary theories. This paper analyses Lin Shu's travelogue works in the light of his theory of mood, and argues that this kind of prose embodies a leisurely and elegant literati temperament and a thick cultural atmosphere based on Lin Shu's personal sentiment, and that the artistic presentation of the work is also highly accomplished.