On the Feminine Features of WEN Tingyun's Poems

The Huajian poetry school represented by WEN Tingyun advocated ornamentation and pursued apophasis. The reasons why the poems became the scented and flowery style were not only the results of the literature alternation,but also the circuitous reflections of the social development and cultural changes. It was the the spirit of the time in the Late Tang Dynasty,the poetic awareness and WEN's personal life experience that made the poems present distinctive feminine feature. WEN's poems exhibited the flowery and meticulous feminine lyric features by means of portraying the female images,expressing the feminine emotions tactfully,presenting the sensual images directly and describing the feminine utensils and the living spaces. WEN Tingyun lived in the critical period of the fixation of the poetry. His feminine poetry writing tendency directly influenced posterity's cognition of the poetic styles and led the poetic styles into the right development road with feminine characteristics.