Poets in the Southern Dynasties were mostly idle courtiers living around the courts and nobles. Of course, the content of their poems is limited by this narrow life, and their interest cannot but be shifted by the hobbies of monarchs and nobles. The life of monarchs and nobles in the Southern Dynasties was very dissolute. From the abolition of the emperor in the Song Dynasty to the rebellion of Dong Qi, and then to Chen Houzhu, there are many ugly life histories. It is inevitable that idle literati use poetry to meet their own needs of debauchery and enjoyment. Shen Yue was an important poet in the Qi and Liang Dynasties. He created such erotic works as Beauty in a Dream, Six Chapters, Holding Hands, and Nocturne. In this case, the trend of literary corruption is inevitable.
Liang Jianwen's Emperor Xiao Gang advocated writing erotic poems. He said to himself, "I am a poet at the age of seven, and I am long and tireless." But the injury is light, and the time number is' Gongti'. "(Liang Shu? Jian Wendi Ji), the name of the "palace", thus. Xiao Gang not only took the lead in writing erotic palace poems such as My wife's ode to day sleeping and Beauty's ode to morning makeup, but also put forward an open theoretical proposition: "The way to establish oneself is different from articles, so you must pay attention to it first, and articles must be debauched. "Under the active advocacy of Xiao Gang, the court literati at that time, such as Yi Shouwu, Yu Xin, Xu Yi and Xu Ling, flattered his will and vigorously promoted the style of court poetry. They even write women's collars, embroidered shoes, pillows, seats, beds, curtains and other bedding to meet their abnormal psychological requirements.
In this era when coquetry and coquetry palace poems prevail, not only Jian 'an poets will be rejected and ridiculed by them (Zhong Rong's Preface to Poems in the Early Liang Dynasty points out that many noble poets "laugh at Cao"), but Xie Lingyun's landscape poems are also considered by some scholars as "cool without expecting anything in return" (Xiao Zixian's Book of Southern Qi? Literary biography "). Abnormal psychology and vulgar taste dominated the poetry world, and their influence lasted for more than 100 years from Liang Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty.
However, in Chen Liang's time, there were still a few poets who wrote a few works with relatively healthy contents.