Research On Fang Bao 's

Fang Bao as the ancestor of Tongcheng school, is not only classical expert but also famous Eight-part Essay experts.because of the impact of traditional thought and the lack of material, there is the lack of research in this area.This paper would like to do Fang Bao Eight-part Essay research. In addition to the introduction, is divided into four chapters.The first chapter is about Fang Bao’s life and friends. It’s life can be divided into three periods, the first period is before the age of thirty-one, the outstanding talent, noble aspirations has created conditions for the later success. The second period is from thirty-two to thirty-nine years old, it’s the most proud time of his life, he edited his writings for two times and expand his influence. The third period is the forty years later, Fang Bao, do not need to take part in the writing tests, and for his elders died one by one. Fang Bao began to hate Eight-part Essay more and more. At the age of seventy-four," Si Shuwen" appeared, which Fang Bao’s theory is summarized in, made the influential of Fang Bao reach the top. Gao Yi、Han Tan, Fang Zhou、Zhu Shu play an important role in his life.The second chapter is on the attitude and theory of Eight-part Essay. Fang Bao’s attitude towards the Eight-part Essay is contradictory, The one hand, he criticized the Eight-part Essay,on the other hand, he is not completely annoying the Eight-part Essay.He wanted to use ancient Chinese prose to save the Eight-part Essay.In the book of" Si Shuwen " This method is the standard of "QI ZHEN YA ZHENG", by the government, become a important standard articles of the Qing Dynasty, and had a profound impact on future generations.The third chapter discusses the creation of Fang Bao. There are many versions of Fang Bao’s Eight-part Essay. Among them, the library of Fudan University version and Shanghai library version are good. In the background of the beginning of Qing Dynasty, as the represent of Tongcheng School, Fang Bao’s Eight-part Essay are similar with ancient Chinese prose in the content and the form, especially in the beginning and intermediate. Although there sometimes also have some defects in Fang Bao’s Eight-part Essay, such as not precise. But Fang Bao’s Eight-part Essay still became the role model, and had positive effect to the literary environment just at that moment.The fourth chapter is on Eight-part Essay’s influence to ancient Chinese prose and poetry,"write ancient Chinese prose like the Eight-part Essay" is a common criticism of the descendants to Fang Bao, it first comes from Sinologist. It is the t knowledge criticism, but people offen use it to criticize Fang Bao’s ancient Chinese prose. Actually, the Eight-part Essay has impact on Fang Bao, On the one hand, because of the era, on the one hand, because of the experience. At the same time, Eight-part Essay also influenced Fang Bao’s poetry,this phenomenon is very common at the time.