On the aesthetic style of WEN Tingyun's poems

WEN Tingyun was an eminent poet in the late Tang Dynasty. His poems have two contrasting aesthetic style tropisms. The ornate style represents raffish trend of thought, which arose in flourishing cities. This style is the concentrated embodiment of aesthetic tastes of the late Tang Dynasty. Moreover, the simple style reflects the indifferent attitude, which was nourished in secluded countryside. This style is the decadent recall with emotion of the clerisy of low station. Above-mentioned two styles possess severally its realistic basis and representative signification. And open out the unitary style and features of the poems during the late Tang Dynasty.