In 1685, during the rule of the Qing emperor Kang Xi, a pro-Ming settler from Koxinga's era named Shen Kuang-wen established a poetry society in Chiayi with other poets.
康熙年間（一六八五年），明鄭遺老沈光文集結了一群詩人在嘉義成立「東吟社」。