Abstract:

As a historical concept, the poetry styled Gong Ti was active during the period from the Liang Dynasty to the early Tang. During that period a very attractive phenomenon was the intense increase of amorous poems. The amorous poetry should be regarded as an essential featrue of the Gong Ti poetry. However, the Gong Ti poetry was not the same as the amorous poetry in general since it was indeed a fresh type of the amorous poetry. Accordingly, its definition might be as follows: the Gong Ti poetry was a new type of the amorous poetry that was active from the late Liang Dynasty (when Xiao Gang became a crowned prince and representative figure of that kind of poets) to the early Tang Dynasty. In this way there were three types of amorous poetry: 1) the orthodox Gong Ti poetry which was characterized by depiction, 2) lyric poetry, and 3) the quasi-Gong Ti poetry (folk love poetry).

Key words: the poetry styled Gong Ti, definition, type