According to Shih Su, Chinese poetry and paintings possess the same essential quality. It's a rather important comment in ancient Chinese art theory. Although poetry and painting belong to different art categories, their poetic quality and artistic mind always interact with each other. No matter in the sate of creative mind, expression of mood and the background of culture history, they all reveal a similar pattern, especially in landscape poetry and landscape painting. Ancient Chinese poets and painters observe the nature and society from their artistic vision, expressing the same emotion through ways of their own. According to literary estheticism, they inspired by scholars from Wei and Chin Dynasty. During that era, scholars dissatisfied the government and confused by their circumstances. They all have to create territory in their own mind and settle themselves in the natural scenery to accomplish their completeness. The ancient Chinese poets and painters both pursuit the fluent and appropriate expression in their art forms. They all reflected the fact that all scholars devoted to Confucianism and Taoism, and rheir ambitious mental outlook to reach the immortal mind. This article discusses the creative mind of Chinese landscape poetry and landscape paintings. It also analyzes the common traits shared by both of the art forms, unraveling the secret ingredients of the spiritual settlement used by ancient Chinese scholars.