In the early Yuan Dynasty, Liu Chenweng and Zhao Mengfu from the Southern Song Dynasty worshipped the Tang Dynasty, but their poetic style was elegant. Yuan Haowen and Liu Yin in the Jin Dynasty imitated Su Shi, but their poetic style was simple and bold.
In the mid-Yuan Dynasty, Yu Ji, Yang Zai, Frant Gwo and Ji Jie were called the four great masters of the Yuan Dynasty. At this time, a group of minority poets who can write in Chinese appeared, such as Guan Yunshi and Sadula.
At the end of Yuan poetry, there were many works that directly exposed social darkness and class contradictions, such as Zhu Derun and Wang Mian.
Song Lian, Liu Ji and Gao Qi are the representative poets in the early Ming Dynasty. They enjoyed a good reputation in the Yuan Dynasty, and were good at both poetry and prose, which played a very good role in reversing the delicate and lazy poetic style at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
From Ming Poetry to Yongle in Ming Taizu, and then to Hongzhi, there appeared the Taige style represented by Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and Yang Pu. During Hongzhi and Zhengde years, Zheng Hong style represented by Li Mengyang and He Jingming appeared. They advocated learning the ancient prose of Qin and Han Dynasties and the poems of the prosperous Tang Dynasty in Han and Wei Dynasties, and opposed the poems of Taige. During the reign of Jiajing and Qin Long, Jiajing School, represented by Li Panlong and Wang Shizhen, prided itself on imitating ancient poetry. Since the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, it was considered that poetry was not worth seeing. During the Wanli period, police bodies, represented by Hubei police officers Yuan Zongdao, Yuan Hongdao and Yuan Zhongdao, advocated "expressing one's own spirit and not sticking to one pattern" and recommended Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty and Su Shi in the Song Dynasty. At the same time, the Jingling School, represented by Zhong Xing and Tan, advocates the style of "seclusion", but his poems are subtle and delicate.
There were two kinds of poets in the early Qing Dynasty. One is an official at first, and later becomes an official, such as Qian and Wu. The other is those who are willing to be adherents and refuse to be officials, such as Gu and Wu Jiaji.
During the reign of Kangxi, Wang Shidian was honored as the first poet in the Qing Dynasty for advocating the theory of verve. His poems are the most unique in the seven verses, showing a fresh and profound style. Later, from the last years of Kangxi to the years of Qianlong and Jiaqing, many schools of poetry appeared, such as Shen Deqian, Yuan Mei, Jiang Shiquan and Zhao Yi, who advocated the theory of "mode", and Zheng Xie, who was also known as "Three Masters of Jiangyou" with Yuan Mei, and had a simple and vigorous poetic style. Other influential poets include Weng Fanggang, who advocated the "texture" theory of poetry, and Huang Jingren, whose poems are sentimental and touching.