In this discussion of the otherwordly current of landscape vision in Six Dynasties Chinese poetry, I have attempted to outline the features and order of the world beyond and at the same time to demonstrate how it has enriched the early medieval perception of earthly nature. The merging of the otherwordly realms of the immortals, the mountain worlds of hermits, and the temporal landscapes of nature poetry make one question the legitimacy of the established generic categorizations: should paradise descriptions be regarded as aspects of the youxian subgenre or as a variety of landscape poetry? Apparently they are both, and the worlds of immortals and ot the mountains and rivers are much closer than the accepted classification would suggest. The interplay between real and transcendental landscape poses the question of whether many aspects of the poetry on mountains and rivers are more than poetic embellishments, or whether they are in fact features of the inverted world of paradise.