Abstract
The important Late Yuan and Early Ming poetic schools, which had been studied by scholars like HU Yin-Ling, YE Sheng and SHEN De-Qian, can be geographically categorized into four major regional systems: Eastern Zhejiang, Suzhou, Jiangxi and Central Fujian. It can be consequently considered that, during this period, the regional poetics took the lead in the development of poetic theory of the entire Ming Dynasty. If we pay attention to these regional systems, we may find out that they laid conceptual foundations for the ＂Revivalism＂ (fugu) of Ming Dynasty. This complicated term can be understood by studying each of their different poetic interpretations of ＂Shijing (Book of Songs)＂. Despite that they all placed emphasis on the reviving of classics, what they meant were conceptually different. This paper focuses on the poetic interpretations of ＂Shijing＂ of the four regional systems, and wishes to fill the vacancy of academic research on the Ming Dynasty poetics by clarifying their different theories under the same term of ＂Rivivalism.＂