Zhong Rong

Who is Zhong Rong?

"Zhong Rong" was a leading scholar in Chinese traditional poetics, who lived in Northern and Southern Dynasties His representative writing was "Shi Ping" which was renamed as《詩品》 in Northern Song Dynasty. This thin book is the first one that we have found so far which aims to mark or taste Chinese poets and their poetry. Its introduction or preface presents a profound poetic theory. In the beginning, it tried to define what is poetry and connected it with Daoist's main concept"QI"（“气”）.