The scope of discussion is mainly five-character poems. In the book, the 122 poets from the Han Dynasty to the Liang Dynasty are divided into three categories, namely, upper, middle and lower, and commented on them respectively, so they are called "poems".
In his book, Zhong Rong criticized the disadvantages of piling up allusions and deliberately pursuing temperament in poetry circles at that time. "Preface to Poetry" said: "When it comes to chanting temperament, what is the importance of using things?" And piling up allusions makes poetry "almost copy books." He also said that the poetic rhythm of "four tones and eight diseases" put forward by Shen Yue and others "made writing taboo and hurt its beauty". However, he is generally opposed to speaking four tones and meter, which is biased.
Zhong Rong
Zhong Rong (about 468- about 5 18), the word Zhongwei, was a literary critic of China Southern Dynasties. Yingchuan Changshe (now changge city, Xuchang, Henan) was born after the famous Yingchuan Zhong Shi in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Officials from the Qi Dynasty went to Situhang to join the army. After joining Liang, he successively served as Wang Xing of Linchuan, the Chinese Army, and Ji Shi, the commander of the Western Shanxi Legion.
Twelve years after Tian Jian, Liang Wudi (5 13), he wrote a monograph on poetry criticism "Poetry", imitating the precedent of the Han Dynasty book "Evaluating Nine Kinds of People and Cutting Seven Skillful Scholars". Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi recorded this book with the title of Poetry Review. This is because in addition to the grade, the quality of the work is also commented. Later, it was named after "Poetry".
Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhong Rong