Wenxuan

…Six Dynasties poets in the Wenxuan (“Literary Anthology”), the 6th-century canon that defined later Chinese literary tastes.

…period included the publication of Wenxuan (“Literary Selections”) by Xiaotong (sometimes called Zhaoming Wenxuan to distinguish it from other similarly named anthologies) and of Wenxin Diaolong (“The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons”; a classic in literary criticism) by Liu Xie, the evolution of what has come to be…