Jingling School was formed in the late Ming Dynasty, with Zhong Xing and Tan as its representatives. Because both of them were from Jingling (now Tianmen City, Hubei Province), they were later called Jingling School, also known as Jingling Style or Zhongtan Style. The emergence of Jingling school has its unique historical factors, which appeared when the public security school was declining. To some extent, it is an improvement of public security schools. They don't agree that the police school is vulgar, shallow and shoddy, so they advocate a "deep and lonely" style to improve it.
In the early days of its birth, Jingling School promoted the style of writing in the Ming Dynasty to some extent, and had a great positive impact on essays in the late Ming Dynasty and beyond, especially essays. Among them, Dong Liu, who was deeply influenced by Jingling School, made great achievements, and his "A Brief View of the Imperial Capital" is one of the representative works of Jingling School. In the later period, Jingling School gradually went to extremes. His followers are Cai, Zhang Ze, etc. The disadvantages of vigorously developing the wording of Jingling School are hard to understand.
Speaking of Jingling School, we have to introduce the representatives of this school, Zhong Xing and Tan. Zhong Xing, the word Bojing, Wanli Jinshi, retired from Gu 'an. Zhong Xing's poems are all of a certain level. His main works are Yin Xiu, Xuan Ji and Shi Huai. Tan, the word friend Xia, a guy who didn't pass the exam, spent his whole life taking the exam and died on the road. The main work "Tan Friendship Collection". The greatest influence on Zhong and Tan was the compilation of the poem The Return of the Native, which promoted the development of their literary thoughts, was popular for a while and had far-reaching influence.