Abstract:

The imperial court literati represented by Shi Runzhang, Wei Yijie and FengPuconducted a series of the rectifications and regulations. They reiterated the didactical functions of poetry by criticizing the poetic style in the late Ming Dynasty and returning to the Confucianist poetic instruction. They reflected on the poetic style in the early Qing Dynasty and advocated righteous styles and elegance. They assigned a dominant role to “elegance and righteousness” and poetic morality in Tang Dynasty while assimilating achievements by previous dynasties and recognizing the value of poetry in Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty with restraint. Based on these practices, they constructed the poetic ideology of the Qing Dynasty. The poetic regulations set by them met the needs of the Qing government to reconstruct political ideology.

Key words: imperial court literati, Wei Yijie, poetic ideology, FengPu, Shi Runzhang