On Consciousness Separation in Ci Poetry Criticism during Northern Song Dynasty

The men of letters in Northern Song Dynasty inherited the Romance Ci Poets' concept of Ci poetry which advocated that general style of poetry should be serious and solemn while Ci poetry should be of charming and graceful style. The main stream of poetry idea, which regarded the gentle and restrained style as it's orthodox, gave main expression in the increasingly tendency of stylistic separation in poetry and Ci poetry as well as preservation and preservation of traditional style of Ci poetry. Su Shi, the master of poetry at that time insisted on poemization of Ci poetry and accordingly established a school heroic abandon with powerful and free style poems, but failed to win the theoretical recognition at that time.