Poetic poetry refers to the Eastern Palace in the Southern Dynasties when Emperor Jianwen and Xiao Gang were governors, with Chen Houzhu, Yang Di and Emperor Taizong as the center. It not only refers to a poetic style describing court life, but also refers to a poetic style formed in the court, which began in Xiao Gang, Jian Wendi. When Xiao Gang was a prince, he often sang with literati in the East Palace. Its content is mostly palace life and affairs between men and women, but it pursues flowery rhetoric in form, which is called palace style. Later, he called erotic poems palace poems.
This poetic style began with Liang Wudi and Wu Yun, He Xun and Liu Xiaozhuo. The main author of palace poems is Xiao Gang, and some scholars gathered around them, such as Xu Gan, Yu Jianwu, Xu Ling, Chen and his entourage, can also be classified into this category. The criticism of palace poems has always been that many palace poems pay attention to women's life and posture. In fact, the content of palace poems is not limited to women's lives, but there are also some lyric works that praise things. Even when writing about women's lives, only a few of them have low styles. Generally speaking, the artistic conception of palace poems is frivolous and the poetic style is soft and light. As for Xiao Gang and Xiao Yi, who are known as palace poets, they also wrote many beautiful and readable works, and as for Yu Jianwu and Xu Ling, there are also some excellent poems.