Wu Wenying was featured by his special writing style of ci poems so that he was cried up in the late Southern Dynasty but this was not the case in Yuan and Ming Dynasties.

• 吴文英因其特殊的风格在词学史上独树一帜，南宋末年颇受推崇，元明却默默无闻，清代前中期梦窗词逐渐显现，至晚清吴文英则被推为至尊的地位。