Seven Sons, Descendants Cast with Other's Strong Points ——Brief Comment on WANG Duo's Poetry and Literature Thought

WANG Duo was a prominent giant in the field of poetry in the late Ming Dynasty and beginning of the QING Dynasty. His poetry and literature thought inherited the theory of the Seven Sons, carried forward again the spirit of practical solicitude and unique style of prosperous TANG Dynasty so as to eliminate the abuses of trifling and overflowing, the slim and the fragile caused by unchecked SONG Ci composed by scholars in Gongan, Jingling and those at the beginning of QING Dynasty. WANG Duo's poetry also drew the merits of the various schools of poem federations of LI Zhi, Gongan and Jingling in order to save the loss of the work modeled after the ancients, which embodied a situation of the absorption of others' strong points, represented a new stage of development of poetic style and enjoyed a tremendous significance in the poetic history of the MING and QING Dynasties.