Ming poetry

During the Ming dynasty the arts flourished, including painting, music, literature, dramatic theater, and poetry.

Leading Ming poets include Gao Qi, Li Dongyang, and the publisher-poet Yuan Hongdao.

Li Yu is also a prime example of the Ming-Qing transition's emotional outpouring when disorder swept away Ming stability as the incoming dynasty's Manchu warriors conquered from North to South.

[2] The literati celebrated women's works as embodying desirable qualities that men lacked, such as innocence, the childlike mind (童心), xingling (性灵) and emotions.

[3] Many of these well-known writers were also Gējìs,[4][5] including Liu Rushi, Wang Wei, Dong Xiaowan and Gu Mei.

Peach Festival of the Queen Mother of the West , early 17th century, anonymous painter of the Ming dynasty.