Literary Ecology and the Emperors’ Attitude of Poem in Ming Dynasty

The emperor in the traditional society has great importance to the development of poem. But the sixteen emperors in Ming Dynasty who have different character have no interest in poems. The emperors in Ming Dynasty compose and grant poems in order to maintain the image as the national cultural symbol, but the poetic behavior is mostly associated with the political color and cultural significance beyond the domain of literature.They do not have special hobby of poems, needless to say to promote it. Therefore this explains the fact that Ming poems have not restored the prosperity like that in Tang and Song Dynasty.