Wang Shizhen
Gui professed a distaste for the Revivalist School. He criticized the later Revivalists such as Wang Shizhen (), a contemporary bureaucrat and scholar. Wang Shenzhong, Mao Kun, Tang Shunzhi and Gui etc. were bracketed together as Tang Song pai (, a school advocating Tang and Song dynasties' classic works of literature) afterwards, while Gui was regarded as the head of them. These writers of the mid-Ming created the canon of the eight great Tang and Songwriters which impact hitherto.