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The Three Great Masters of Yuanjia are the collective names of the three poets Xie Lingyun, Yan Yanzhi and Bao Zhao who were active in the literary world during the Yuanjia period of Emperor Wen of the Southern Song Dynasty. The three people have different literary styles. They respectively created the landscape poetry school, the temple poetry style and the seven-character song style, and jointly promoted the development of poetry art in the Southern Dynasties. Xie Lingyun was born into a prominent Xie family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His landscape poems broke the tradition of metaphysical poetry and focused on the description of natural scenery. Yan Yanzhi was an official until Jin Ziguanglu, and his poetry was famous for its dense use of allusions. He was as famous as Xie Lingyun and was known as "Yan Xie". Bao Zhao came from a poor family. He served as King of Linhai and joined the army. He was good at composing Yuefu poems and innovating the rhyme structure of seven-character poems. He was later killed due to involvement in a rebellion. He was a famous writer and poet with high achievements. This book is a collection of poems by three people.

Tao Yuanming's poems are simple in style, elegant in language, and do not pursue gorgeous rhetoric. As Zhu Xi commented, "Everyone says that Tao Yuanming's poems are mediocre." There are 125 Tao poems in existence today, among which the five-character poems are the most outstanding. This book is a collection of selected works.

Xie Lingyun was a famous poet in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. His literary achievement lies in landscape poetry. Beginning with Xie Lingyun, "landscape poetry" has become a major genre of Chinese literature. This book is a collection of selected works.