Palace-style poems are erotic poems with palace style or court as the center. It is a historical term, so strictly speaking, palace poems refer to the East Palace when Liang was a prince, and erotic poems centered on, and Emperor Taizong.
The so-called Palace Poetry in the Southern Dynasties refers to a popular school of poetry in Chen Houzhu at the end of Liang Dynasty. The main writers are the royal family of Xiao Liang and their literary attendants. Most of them describe the beauty of women, with skillful form and rigorous temperament, forming a unique landscape of Chen Liang's poetry. At the same time, this kind of poem was also called palace poem because it was popular among bachelors in Xiao Gang's belly at that time.
Another explanation: it refers to a style that emphasizes tone with writing the feelings of court life as the main content, and the words are gorgeous and light. It originated in the Qi and Liang Dynasties, and reached its peak in Xiao Gang and its surrounding literati.
The name "Gongti" first appeared in Xiao Gang's comment in "Liang Shu Jian Wen Di Ji": "It was injured by lightness, so it was called Gongti at that time". However, this poetic style began with Liang Wudi, Wu Yun, He Xun and Liu Xiaozhuo. The main authors of palace poems are Xiao Gang, Xiao Yi and some scholars gathered around them, such as Xu Gan, Yu Jianwu and Xu Ling. Chen and his attendants can also fall 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, known as palace poets, they also wrote many beautiful and readable works. As for Yu Jianwu and Xu Ling, there are also some excellent poems.