Recluses and their Poems in the Late Ming Dynasty

Recluses and their poetry rose abruptly as a prominent phenomenon in the circles of poets in the late Ming Dynasty,under whose attack the opposition betweenthe courtandthe commonaltyin the circles of poets after the middle of the Ming Dynasty,finally ended up in the result of change thatpoetry has in the main been created by the commoner.This change in the main body of poetry writing had a far reaching impact on the evolutionary trend of the Ming poems and songs creation.The article is to reveal the circumstances under which the later Ming recluses had been surviving:the general picture of the circles of recluse poets,the literary orientation and artistic creation in the recluse poetry,and demonstrate the value and position of the recluse poems in the poetic history of the late Ming Dynasty.