Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: In this he was highly influenced by the Ancient Rhetoric school of the Ming period , which was a neoclassical movement that saw the Qin and Han periods as the model for prose , and the Tang period for poetry .
Simplified: In this he was highly influenced by the Ancient Rhetoric school of the Ming period . This movement saw the Qin and Han periods as the model for prose , and the Tang period as a model for poetry .