On The Poets Gathering Club Activities And Style Changing Of Rhyme Poetry In Late Ming Dynasty To Early Qing Dynasty

The thriving rhyme poetry in Qing Dynasty originated from the late Ming Dynasty. In Tianqi and Chongzhen period, the poets select the essence and discard the dross of the early heritage, the prose style changed radically. Among the poets, Yunjian School represented by Chen Zilong, sprung up and exerted the leading influence. Poets from the adjacent place such as Xiling (Hangzhou), Liuzhou (Jiashan), Meili (Jiaxing), Yangxian (Wujin) followed and echoed in corresponding. From then on the trend gradually resulted in the budding prosperity of rhyme poetry in ending Ming dynasty. In Qing Dynasty, the rhyme poetry blossomed. The dominating school in this period, Zhexi, is formed under this tendency and combined by Clubs of Xiling, Liuzhou, Meli.The rhyme poets in Ming and Qing dynasty assembled and gathered frequently to discuss, comment, chant, or even collect the fine poems. They initiated another climax of rhyme poetry and restored the thriving situation of it. The essay mainly explores the rhyme poetry in this period, focusing on the poets'club activities and gatherings, aiming at revealing the correlation between the change of rhyme poetry style and the gathering club activities.The first chapter on this essay is the introduction part. The author first accounts the reasons of topic-choosing, then makes a detailed analysis on the present researching situation, and outlined the researching frame of the whole essay.The author puts his emphasis on the developing clue of rhyme poetry, researches the club activities of the rhyme poets and the poetry style changing in late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty according time development in body part of this essay. The whole essay is divided into five parts.In chapter one, the author has a general introduction on the club activities of the rhyme poets. The introduction ranges from aspects such as the orignation, influential factors, classification, activities of poets clubs to the co-existing situation.During the peroid from late Ming Dynasty to early Qing Dynasty, there were large quantity of original poetry schools or groups, such as, clubs of Yunjian, Liuzhou, Xiling, Guangling and Yangxian etc. The author lays his emphasis on the strong correlation between the formation and development of the schools and the gathering club activities, for instances, Yujian Poetry School and its club gathering activities, Liuzhou Poetry Schooland the Liuzhou Eight Poets Club gathering activities, etc.The second chapter to fourth chapter are arranged in chronological order on the club gathering activities from Tianqi Mingzhen Period in Ming Dynasty to Kangxi Period in Qing Dynasty. The author got a clear xlue about the inner relationship between the poetry club gathering activities and the poetry style changing.In the second chapter, the author analyzes the poetry of"love theme". In this period, the rhyme poetry was mainly infulenced by Yunjian Group. Though the styles may be different in subtle forms, the poetry in this period shares the same theme--- love. Thus, the author named the style in this period Love-themed.In the third chapter, the author analyzes the Variou-style period, this period extended from the fourth year to eighteenth year in Kangxi Period in Qing Dynasty. In this period, the rhyme poetry displays various styles on various themes, mainly because of the influence from Jiaxuan Style. However, the most obvious character of the rhyme poetry in this period is that the poets stess much more about the meaning of the poems.This period canbe called as"Shangqi". The fourth chapter was mainly about the quality-oriented period. It is from the eighteenth year to the end of Kangxi Period in Qing Dynasty.During this period of time, Zhexi Poetry School represented by Zhu Yizhun played a leading role in the rhyme poetry. Zhu Yizhun advocated pure and elegant poetry style. Such style relys on poetry quality improving.The fifth chapter is the conclusion, revealing the correlation between school combination and the gathering club activities. After analyzed the causing factors of school combining, the author mainly accounted the penetrating process of Zhexi School. The process all along was accompanied with the gathering club activities. The stystematical structure employed by author is in accordance with the poetry style changing process in late Ming Dynasty to Early Qing Dynasty.The last chapter analyzes the declining development in Qing rhyme poetry after all schools combined, and its declining reasons. The developing result is just the same development rule of everything, that is, from zenith to the wane.