The Crisis, Development and Retro of the Literature in the Middle of the Ming Dynasty

The literary field of the Ming Dynasty entered an era of cultivating writers by itself because some literatus passed away during the transferring period from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty after the Yongle period. The Secretariat poetry during the heyday of Zai Ren and Xuan Liang emperors failed to promote poetry in the Ming Dynasty. Instead, Li Dongyang and Chaling schools emerged with their contributions and the Early Seven Scholars headed by Li Mengyang evoked a new round of retro. At the same time, the well-known literati of Wu, including Yu Qian, Yang Shen and Wu Zhong, added bright color in literature with their works.