This term means poetry creation should present the unembellished beauty of

nature and the genuine sentiments of human beings. The original meaning

of yingzhi (英旨) is good taste. Used as a literary term, however, it refers

to charming content and imagery in poetry. In "Preface to 'The Critique of

Poetry,'" Zhong Rong of the Southern Dynasties called on poets to express

their thoughts and sentiments in their own words and opposed borrowing

expressions from ancient poets. He criticized the excessive attention to ornate

language and tonal rhythms in the writing of five-character-per-line poetry.

He maintained that spontaneously created poems of good taste were most

valuable. The expressions "natural" and "simple and unaffected" in later literary

criticisms contain Zhong Rong's ideas.