Abstract: Eulogies about a Broken Hairpin is a poetry anthology comprised of more than 700 poems written by nearly 500 poets during the period of Emperors Jiaqing, Daoguang and Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty. During the regimes of Jiaqing and Daoguang, TANG Yi-fen widely solicited poems for his painting "Eulogy about a Hairpin" in order to eulogize the virtue of his mother who struggled for chastity and educated him and his brother after the death of his father. Finally a painting poetry anthology came into being. The anthology, with the main purpose to extol maternal love and advocate maternal virtue, reveals the opposite and complementary relationship between poetic talent and virtue, and the contradiction between the finite existence of things and the infinite affection of human beings. The poems of the same topic written by female and male poets in the anthology also demonstrate opposite and related power and meanings. The anthology with magnificent poetry tension was an ensemble of maternal love, which purified the ethos of poetry circle, increased the variety of themes and strengthened the expression of the poetry.

Key words: Eulogies about a Broken Hairpin, maternal love, tension, soliciting poems for a painting, the opposite and complementary relationship between talent and virtue, the finite and the infinite, poems of the same topic written by female and male poets