On Zeng Ji's inheritance and innovation of Jiangxi poetic school

Zeng Ji, a poet of the Song dynasty, enjoyed reputation in the poetic circle for his inheritance and innovation of the Jiangxi poetic school. In his early years, he learnt the Jiangxi poetic school and his poems were uniform in form and smooth in rhythm. In his later years, influenced by Liu Benzhong's poetic writing skill, he perfected his theory and wrote a lot of poems in a lucid and vivid style, creating a new poetic style.