Abstract:

The imperial ordered poetry is one of the main types of poetry in the Six Dynasties, and Jiankang, as the capital city, was the most important creation place. Thus, an examination of Jiankang imperial ordered poetry can roughly clarify the basic situation of this kind of poetry in the Six Dynasties in general. The main content of the poems are banquets, tour, chanting things, and political affairs. A poem of this kind mainly consists of three parts, that is, introducing the background, describing banquets and other events, and ending with a eulogium, which has established the basic style of the imperial ordered poetry in the Tang Dynasty in terms of both content and form. The relationships between monarchs and ministers in the Six Dynasties were pleasant, and some emperors themselves were fond of literature. Due to this fact, some poems in this period have less or no eulogistic elements, but more elements of landscape and lyricism, just like literary exchanges between literati. This is another feature of the imperial ordered poetry in the Six Dynasties.

Key words: the Six Dynasties, Jiankang, imperial ordered poetry, literary geography