1, verve
The verve school is an important school of poetry in Qing Dynasty, represented by Wang Shizhen. The verve school pays attention to the artistic conception and verve of poetry, emphasizes the implication and obscurity of poetry, and pursues a fresh and natural artistic realm beyond the world.
2. Style school
The representative of de stijl is Shen Deqian. De stijl pays attention to the style and charm of poetry, emphasizes the norms and conventions of poetry, and pursues elegant, solemn and harmonious poetry style.
3. Mental school
Yuan Mei, a representative figure of Spirituality School, pays attention to expressing personal feelings and personality characteristics, and pursues a free, frank and natural poetic style.
4. Texture School
The representative figure of Texture School is Weng Fanggang, who pays attention to the discussion and research on the internal structure of poetry and pursues a deep, meticulous and rigorous poetic style.
Characteristics of Poetry in Qing Dynasty
Poetry in Qing Dynasty is full of words and truth, with discussion as poetry and scholarship as poetry, which makes poetry become prose. Qing people like to talk about reason, and most of them take argument as poetry, learning as poetry and writing as poetry. Many Qing poems are praised by people, not because their images are vivid and full, but because they have a fascinating interest in reason.
Poets in Qing Dynasty were not good at feeling and understanding things poetically, but were good at observing things keenly and profoundly. Many poems in the Qing Dynasty are not poetic, but in common things and phenomena, they suddenly tell the truth that ordinary people know but are hard to say, which makes people feel alert and fresh. Poets in Qing Dynasty also narrated and described the scenery in their poems, but it was often not for lyricism.