On Qian Qianyi's Mixed Advocating of Tang & Song Poetry and Qing Poetry Style Innovation

It had been an extremely influential poetic concept in Ming Dynasty that writing poems should model after Tang's top achievements. The parochial idea had a negative effect on individuality. During the period of late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, Qian Qianyi (1582-1664) initiated a new way to write poems by calling for inheriting the soul of both Tang and Song poetry. To create more variety and freshness, he introduced Song poetry style by advocating learning from Du Fu's poems. By altering superficiality by profundity and replacing patternism by naturalism, he endowed Qing poems with quite a big amount of multi\|aesthetic elements.