The Shaping of the Tai-ge School in Ming Dynasty

In the literary circle of early Ming Dynasty, Tai-ge is an important school, most members of which are high-ranking officials. For their literary creation, critics of all ages have different viewpoints. But, actually, by analysis of the shaping of the school that results not only in the development of Chinese traditional literature but also in the challenge of the literary creation of that time, a conclusion can be drawn that their verse and prose give a twisted reflection of their ideology of life, thus being meaningful and valuable for the understanding of the circumstance of those literary scholars.