Yuan Mei Poetry Theory And Practice Of Research

Yuan Mei is an outstanding poet on the Parnassus of Qing Dynasty and his Xing Ling theory is one of the most important theories at that time. He worked hard in the Poetry Creation and had more than 6300 poems. The current academic research attached more importance to his Xing Ling theory and relatively ignored the study of his poetry. This is because his brilliant in the creation of poetry is overwhelmed by his poetry theory to a large extent, which made the scholars always referred him as a poetry theorist, not as a poet. The other reason is that his poetry was disregarded by the poetic critics since Qing Dynasty.This dissertation mainly studied Yuan Mei's poetry theory and writing practice. It firstly deeply analyzed his poetry theory and then explored his more than 6000 poems, combined with his poetry theory. On this base it made a detail text criticism to analyze the concrete relationship between his poetry theory and writing practice. In doing so, the dissertation aimed to not only re-recognize the value of his poetry and more deeply understood his poetry theory, but also comprehended the more complex poem phenomenon through the analysis of the closed or disrupted relations between them.This dissertation is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 is centered on the Yuan Mei's poetry and explored the social background and cultural environment of his times, combined with his ideological characteristics and life experience. Our purpose is to more effectively understand the value of his poetry theory and writing practice. Chapter 2 referred the Yuan Mei's Xing Ling theory as the research object and from the beginning of making clear of the concept of Xing Ling revealed the different implications of'Xing Ling'in his poetry. It also interpreted the three aspects of Xing Ling theory in the writing practice:writing subject, writing process and poetry texts. On this base it characterized the Xing Ling theory.Chapters III and IV referred Yuan Mei's writing practice as its research object and with the clues of analysis of Xing Ling theory in the second chapter, made the detail text criticism from two lines in order to deeply strive into the poetry itself and explored its spirit of the purport, ideological content, artistic features, style, appearance, etc. The third chapter is divided into three sections focusing on the study the expression of 'Xing' of Xing Ling theory in Yuan Mei's poetry, including naturally true insistence, plain aesthetic pursuit and emphasis of individuality and self-innovation. The former three sections in the Chapter IV laid particular attention to the study of the expression of 'Ling' of Xing Ling theory in Yuan Mei's poetry, including romance, talents'reveal and fun. The last section made a summary of the disrupting between his poetry theories and writing practice.