Between 1796 and 1850 in the Qing Dynasty and around the Opium War,Zhang Jiliang criticized the poetry trend which deviated from reality in the period between 1736 and 1795, and stood for writing 'poems of men of ideals and integrity'. The focus of this view embodied in his poems is on the then reality, the changing world and the human beings bold and generous character. Studying Zhangs poetics and poems, this essay attempts to grasp the essence of his poetics without any mistake so as to make clear what the then intellectuals were thinking about a...
