Six Travel Landscape Poetry In The Cultural Horizons

Six Dynasties was the formative years of Chinese Landscape Poems. it is also when poets as Xie Lingyun. Xie Tiao appeared. They have created a lot of landscape poems which have attracted closely attention and study of academic concern.This thesis focused on the research of Landscape Poems under the background of the culture of "tour" in Six Dynasties。trying to reveal the relationship between Landscape Poems and the culture of "tour" from a new angle so as to opening up a new area of Landscape Poems researching.The introduction part defines landscape poetry in terms of tourism and believes that landscape poetry precisely describing landscapes and are only created after poets truly went sight-seeing somewhere and eventually felt the beauty of nature both physically and mentally. It describe landscape poetry as a perfect combination of the internal world of poets and the inner world.Chapter I looks into the past. exploring the origin of Landscape oetry from "The Book of Poetry", "The Odes of Chu" and Han Fu. trying to analysis the relationship between poems which described Chinese Buddhist philosophy (also called Xuan Yan Poetry) and Landscape Poetry. While as a matter of fact. the study of Chinese Buddhist philosophy and all related poems (Xuan Yan Poetry) can only be defined as a motivation that eventually led to the formation of Landscape Poetry instead of a true internal cause. Chapter II elaborates the background of the generation of Landscape oetry from a macroscopical angle. Socio-political and economic structure; scholars' attitudes towards the unstable era; the belief of Confucianism. Buddhism and Taoism as well as the public interest were more or less. related to the formation and development of Landscape Poetry.In Chapter 3。the author discusses the direct relation between the"Tourism"culture and landscape poems of the Six Dynasties. Before the Qin Dynasty. various types of "Tourism" culture were closely associated with traveling. The transmutation of"Tourism"culture promoted the changes of scholars' mindsets. which became the inner motivation to the development of scenic poetry.In the Chapter 4. the author analysis the artistic structure of scenic poetry from voice. semantics. syntax and organization. It demonstrates the aesthetic features of scenic poetry through close-reading study.Chapter V is the comparative study of Xie Lingyun's and Xie Tiao's scenic poetry. It is a case study. which can be extended to the two important stages of the development of the Six Dynasties' poetry. To avoid needless duplication. we may as well focus on solving the weak points of the two Mr. Xie's scenic poetry.Chapter VI is additional theory. briefly expressed the poetics status and significance of landscape poems of the Six Dynasties.