Dancing with Shackles——New Development of Song Game Verse in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

The Song dynasty is a new era characterized by "writing poem in a way of creating prose". The game poem such as Jigou poem and eight sounds poem reached its climax in Song dynasty. Ming and Qing literati further developed game poem and achieved high, especially in combination of Jigou and drama, double restrictions and minor rhyme in eight sounds poem. These achievements display their intense interests and perfect skills in poetry blend of characters.