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Poems originate from the poet's heart-felt feelings. Lu Ji of the Western Jin Dynasty said in "The Art of Writing" that a poet must have a surge of feeling deep in his heart before he could create a poem. This view, complementing the concept of "poetry expressing aspirations," stresses the lyrical and aesthetic nature of literary works and echoes the evolution of literary tastes during the Wei and Jin dynasties. "Poetry springing from emotions" represents another viewpoint on the nature of poetry and literature in ancient China.Clerical script was derived from seal script. It was an "unfilial son" of seal script. Why? In seal script, the execution of each horizontal or vertical line, hook or dot is governed by certain reasons and laws. They are ideographic, pictographic, ideophonetic, associative compound, or with transferred meaning and borrowed meaning, hence the term "six ways of constituting characters." The clerical script, by changing seal script from smooth roundness to angular abruptness, transforms the structural pattern altogether and violates the methodology of forming seal script. Thus, the reasons and laws implicit in the six ways of forming characters became lost as clerical script came to prevail. (Qian Yong: Collected Writings on the Study of Calligraphy at Lüyuan)