It is well-known that there are individual literary creation and popular literary creation as well as group
poetics and
personal poetics in the poetic history, which are different in nature, but relatively unified with one and the other The group poetics usually got mature earlier in the development of the
preliminary poetic history than the personal poetics, which came forth as a token of the coming-up into a higher-level stage of poetic history In the analysis of the development of the preliminary poetic history in China, the text concludes that group poetics was the mainstream from the epoch of The Book of Poetry to the Han dynasty while the poetry in the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties took personal poetics as their principal body The on-going poetic history of literati was as a whole the highest development of the personal poetics, but also based on the group poetics derived from the development of the preliminary poetic history Therefore, the principles of the group poetics still exerted a certain controlling effect over the development of the personal poetics