Liu Zongyuan's remarkable position in the history of Chinese literature is undisputed. Along with Han Yu, Liu promoted the Classical Prose Movement, bringing Chinese literature into a new era. As for his poetic achievement, Liu is best known for his five-character quatrains. His most celebrated works, such as Jiangxue (River snow) and Yu Weng (An Old Fisherman), may be regarded as the zenith of five character poetry. In addition, many of Liu's landscape poems have survived. In exile, he had more leisure roaming around mountains and waters, which further allowed his production of landscape poems to flourish. Hence, Liu's political adversity was the source of his unique poetic themes and artistic style. Because he produced a considerable number of poems portraying landscapes, this article does not seek to define or classify his works featuring landscape portrayal; instead, it seeks to probe into his typical landscape poems, in order to summarize the characteristics of this type of poetry.