Abstract: As the six-character poem lacks a musical melody in sound and rhythm,the poet tries to enhance its picturesque beauty and architectural beauty as a compensation while composing it,especially so did the poets of the Song Dynasty.The picturesque beauty of the poem lies in the use of characters denoting colour,reduplicated characters and locality characters.In contrast with the five-character or seven-character poems,the six-character poem is better suited to the presentation of static objects in parallelism and general impression.The architectural beauty of the poem comes from its exquisite allusions and symmetrical combinations in form,sound,meaning,grammar,figures,etc.

Key words: six-character poem, picturasque beauty, architectural beauty, picturesque poem, allusion, antithesis