Abstract:

Six Dynasties poems used to be regarded as alien throughout the history of China s poetry criticism; more unfortunately, many of them were scattered and lost. But such a situation was considerably improved in the middle Ming dynasty. With booming imitation and positive criticism of these poems, a vigorous trend of collecting and collating Six Dynasties' Poetry appeared around Jiajing years. Probing into the underlying reasons for such phenomena, the paper not only describes the renaissance of Six Dynasties' Poetry after long-time depression in the early Ming dynasty but promotes the understanding of literature and culture in the middle Ming dynasty that evolved along with politics, economy and ideology.

Key words: Six Dynasties Poetry, criticism, collation, the middle Ming Dynasty