The Fupoetics in the Yuan Dynasty prior to The Criticism of Ancient Fupoetry Styles divided into northern Fupoetics and southern Fupoetics. Northern Fupoetics went back to the Jin Dynasty, basically taking a negative attitude to metrical verses and Fupoems of the dynasty. This Fupoetic school divided into a radical group and a mild group. As representatives of the radical group, Hao Jing and his like vigorously advocated and wrote oldstyle Fupoems, insisting that Fupoems of the Chu Kingdom and the Han Dynasty should be set as the models of writing, which directly encouraged the establishment of the view of “regarding the style of Li Sao as the original form and the Fupoetry of the Han Dynasty as the orthodox school” by Zu Yao. However, Wang Yun and his like, who belonged to the mild school, regarded metrical verses and Fupoetry as the stepping stone to officialdom, highly praising metrical verses and Fupoetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties and hoping to remove the malpractices in metrical verses and Fupoetry of the Jin Dynasty. In contrast, the southern Fupoetics succeeded the traditions of the Song Dynasty but made criticism of them if necessary. But Fupoets in the south generally advocated and wrote oldstyle Fupoems after the imperial examination was restored by the Yuan court. Southern Fu-poetics regarded the argumentative style of Fupoetry essentially as old Fupoetry, which expressed opinions of most Fupoets in the south.

The Criticism of Ancient Fupoetry Styles; northern Fupoetics; southern Fupoetics; The Criticism of Ancient Fupoetry Styles of the Yuan Dynasty