This is an important term about literary style that stresses the unity and

integration of the styles of writings with the temperaments of their authors.

The term originated from Liu Xie's The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons.

One chapter of the book discusses how the styles of writings are related to

the temperaments of the writers, and argues that the writings truly reflect

the temperaments of their authors. This has encouraged later generations to

analyze different styles of literary works based on the authors' temperaments

and became a basic line of thought on ancient Chinese literary style.