Cantonese Poets and Eastward Dissemination of Chinese Poetry in Qing Dynasty—Observation Based on Meiji Literature

According to Meiji literature, He Ruzhang, the first Minister in Japan and Huang Zunxian, the Minister-Counselor, had frequent communication with Japanese poets, such as Sekenn Kametani, Seitsro Miyajima, Syu Kazukai etc., who wrote poems in Chinese characters.Poets of Meiji Era advocated and studied Chinese poems of Qing Dynasty.However, after 200-year-policy of avoiding having contacts with other countries, it's a long and uneven road for Japanese poets to know of and understand Chinese poems of Qing Dynasty.The arrival of the statesmen and poets He and Huang and the communication between the two poetic circles became the key medium for eastward dissemination of Chinese poetry in Qing Dynasty and westward spreading of Meiji poems.