Taoist Tradition and Jiangxi Poetic School' s Efforts to Reform Poetry--A Case Study of the School' s New Taste around Huang Tingjian

Jiangxi Poetic School laid much stress on poetic taste. To seek for the new and to seek for formal reforms are the main efforts this school had made to achieve poetic taste. Huang Tingjian, the real founder of Jiangxi Poetic School, is famous for his poetic theories and creative activities by hard working to seek for the new and to seek for the formal reforms. Huang Tingjian is highly of Taoist complex, and his poetic taste comes from his carrying forward the Taoist tradition.