Li Dongyang’s Gediao theory(格调说)advocates the style and tune of poetry,which has profound influences on later literati in the Middle and Later Ming Dynasty.This theory is the product of the time,put forward to complain about Taige style(台阁体)and to deal with the current problems under a subtle circumstance.It seems that Li Dongyang emphasized the metrics of poems,but in fact he aimed at putting renewed emphasis on the essence of Tao and the aesthetic pursuit of innocence and nature of poetry by Gediao theory.He ultimately proposed the functional activity of Qi as the method of expressing Tao and combined the tradition of poetry music to express human nature,which makes Gediao theory a temporal and innocent poetry theory.
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