Palace Poetry: refers to the Eastern Palace when Xiao Gang of Jian Wendi was the prince of the Southern Dynasties, and the poem "Palace Style" centered on several palaces such as Chen Houzhu, Yang Di and Emperor Taizong. It refers to both a poetic style describing court life and a poetic style formed in the court, which began in Xiao Gang of 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 and is called "palace style". Later, he called erotic poems palace poems.
Palace-style poetry was born in the Datong period of the Six Dynasties and the Liang Dynasty, named after Xiao Gang: "(Jian Wendi) is a great literary master, who tirelessly accepts and appreciates poetry ... gentle and good at writing poetry. His preface is that at the age of seven, he was addicted to poetry, long and tireless, and Huang Wen was slightly injured, so he was called' Palace Style'.
Yu Tai Xin Yong is a collection of poems after Selected Works of Zhaoming, The Book of Songs and Songs of the South, and it is an excellent collection of poems that integrates the essence of classical poems in Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is said that "Yutai New Poems" was specially compiled by Xiao Yi, Emperor of Liang Yuan, in order to relieve her worries, including 769 poems from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the Liang Dynasty.
Ode to Yutai, with the aim of "collecting and recording colourful love songs", describes the boudoir feelings of men and women. The emotions are mostly in the categories of leaving sorrow and not hating, hurting feelings, giving up donations halfway, etc., and the scope is relatively narrow. However, there are also many poems with sincere feelings and practical significance, such as Shang Mo Singing, a folk song of Han Yuefu, For Jiao Zhongqing's Wife, a long narrative poem of ancient China (also known as Peacock Flying Southeast), Mountain Picking, etc. These poems show sincere love and women's pain, which shows that not all the poems recorded in Yutai New Poetry are erotic poems.