During this period, the publishing and printing industry experienced unprecedented prosperity, which met the growth of citizens' literary and artistic needs. Novels such as Water Margin and Romance of the Three Kingdoms began to be widely published and circulated in Jiajing period, and the number of opera writers increased one after another. As far as writers who mainly focus on poetry and prose are concerned, they also generally attach importance to popular literature and get inspiration from it. Li Mengyang advocated that "true poetry lies among the people", expressing his disappointment with the tradition of literati literature and his intention to find another way out. Tang Yin's poetry creation after the failure of the imperial examination got rid of elegance and vulgarity to a great extent, and strived for "vulgar interest". In Chen Jiru's Preface to Tibetan Stories, we can see that Wen Zhiming, Shen Zhou, Du Mu, Zhu Yunming and other Wuzhong scribes like to write vivid records of "official affairs". In his later years, Xu Wei shifted his main energy to the creation, evaluation and teaching of traditional Chinese opera. It should also be noted that the novel The Journey to the West was also completed in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.