| Wu Weiyue was the famous astronomers, politicians and military of Ming Dynasty. He came from a noble-family, which was developed by a Geng-du family; He was born in the ninth year of Zheng-de Era, died in the third year of Long-qing Era. He experienced several positions, and had to be pulled out of the right Censor in Guizhou province. Wu Weiyue is not only a member of the “Wide Abitalâ€, but also an important representative figure of punishments poetry club. Though Wu Weiyue had many different ideas on poetic theories with Li Pan-long and Wang Shizhen, who were the members of the Seven Poets, he maintained a fairly close contact with them. In addition, Wu Weiyue became the leader of the literary schools of Tang and Song, Tang Shunzhi’s student on the thirteenth year of Jia-jing Era. The scope of dating of Wu Weiyue was widely, all of the activities laid a certain foundation for the formation of his poetic theory.Wu Weiyue had more than one thousand poems in his poetry, which were written in his study on Mountain Tianmu, and his poetry had twenty-eight volumes. The content of Wu Weiyue’s poetry had five aspects, which were separation, time, official-pursuit, record articles and responsory. The artistic features of Wu Weiyue’s poetry were neat rules, the beauty of artistic conception and natural language. Wu Weiyue learned the glorious age of Tang poetry and followed with Li Pan-long and Wang Shizhen on literary creation, but still kept heart-centered, and adhered to the true qualities. In brief, Wu Weiyue advocated the standard of the flourishing tang dynasty, and also liked natural and true spirit.In one word, Wu Weiyue was worthy of attention, either on the personality or on the poetic style. |