Wang Shizhen, a major poet in Qing Dynasty.

The most famous poet after Wu is Wang Shizhen. Wang Shizhen (A.D.1634-171), also known as Yu Yangshan, was born in Shandong Xincheng, and was the official minister of the Ministry of Justice. His poems pursue a fresh and elegant style, and the seven-character quatrains are particularly good. Let's look at one of his songs, Jinan in Early Spring:

It is sunny every spring in mountainous counties, and there are a few clear springs in the pond.

Every household in Guobian faces the water, and a thousand peaks and a half enter the city after the snow.

This is a description of spring scenery in Jinan, Quancheng. A pond is a pond. It is cloudy and changeable in spring. At this time, it suddenly clears up, and the cool spring water flows out of the pond in the sun. Jinan is known as "every family springs, and every family hangs on a tree". After Chun Xue, the mountain shadows of Qianfo Mountain in the south of the city are reflected in the city, which is pleasing to the eye everywhere. Rereading one of his "Real National quatrains";

Jianggan is mostly a fisherman, while Liu Mo and Tang Ling are sparse.

Fortunately, after the sun went down and it was calm, the semi-river mangrove forest sold bass.

Zhou Zhen is now Yizheng, Jiangsu. Most of the people who live on the river bank are fishermen, dotted with sparse willows and ponds. The evening is calm, and bass are bought and sold in mangroves in late autumn. This is the scenery of Bai Weiling Township, with a simple and neat description and vitality in tranquility. Wang Shizhen is also a poetry theorist. He highly praised Tang poetry, emphasizing that poetry should be fresh and lively, with implicit language and rich charm. This is the famous "verve theory", which has a great influence.

There were also some poets in the early Qing Dynasty, such as Shi, and Cha, who were called "Southern Poets of the Northern Song Dynasty". Although they were not first-class poets at that time, they were quite famous.