Lu Poem Spread, Read The Special Study

Crowned as a prolific poet rarely incomparable in history,Luyou(1125-1210) left to us not only an immense legacy of nearly ten thousand poems,but also an 800-year-long history of acceptance.His works were favored by readers traced back to as far as the Song and Yuan Dynasties.Their arrangement of the whole collection of Jian'nan Poem Manuscript,compilation of the selected works,criticism of the works and imitation of composition,formed a series of diverse and magnificent scene of acceptance history of Luyou's poems.A research on the history of selecting,editing, circulating,reading and evaluating Luyou's works,will contribute to exploring aesthetic activities and experiences of readers at different times,revealing the influence of Luyou's poems upon readers at different times,and reflecting on our imagination about Luyou and on common sense about Luyou's poems,so as to further reach out and make clear the artistic value of Luyou's poems.Deeply inspired by aesthetic ideas,this dissertation sets its foot on reviewing and combing nearly 100-year-old studies on Luyou and over 800-year-long reading activities on Luyou's poems,which were ever deeply tangled with the views of social history,political terminology,ideology and vulgar sociology:to concentrate on investigation of spread width,depth and features of Luyou's poems in the Middle Ages from the perspectives of production,duplication,circulation and extinction of poem collections,and addition and deletion,merge and separation of selected works in the Middle Ages;to reveal the value of Luyou's poems for readers in the Middle Ages through the reading activities of "noble scholar" readers,and account for the images of recluses and hermits in the Luyou's style emerging prior to the premodern period;to explore the establishment process and its motivation of the images of warriors and patriots following the example of Luyou from the influences of social ideology and great people in the premodern and the Republic of China(1912-1949) times;to reflect on the common sense about Luyou and his poems established in the social environment of premodern times by dating the "literary history" back to the formation process of comments made about Luyou and his poems;to observe the opinions and attitudes towards Luyou and his poems mingling the old with the new ones taken by readers with traditional behaviors and reading habits under the radical social circumstances,by utilizing the evaluations on Luyou's poems in various poetry talks published during the Republic of China times.