Wen fu

[2] It is called a "hymn of praise for the craft and art of writing and a specific, prescriptive handbook for the writer.

Moving away from questions such as the ethical purpose of literature, its social context, or the expression of personality, Lu Ji turns to the Neo-Taoist theory of mind and its cosmological basis.

This philosophical stance describes the poet's mind as wandering through the microcosmos within his own body in search of encounters that form the origin of literary work.

The fu as a poetic form was known for its verbal display, usually cataloguing and listing an array of items in order to say everything that could be said on a topic.

[4] Wen fu has influenced modern poets such as Ezra Pound, Gary Snyder, Howard Nemerov, Eleanor Wilner, and Carolyn Kizer.