A Research On Zhang Zhidong's Poetics Theory And Poem Creation

Zhang Zhidong was not only a famous statesman of late Qing Dynasty,but also a poet of very high standards.He insisted poets learning from the Syllables of Tang poetry and intrinsic truth of Song Dynasty.He advocated "songyitangge".He looked on Li Bai, Du Fu, Han Yu, Bai Juyi of Tang Dynasty and Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi,Su Shi and Lu You of Song Dynasty as his teachers. In Qing Dynasty, he learned from Wang Yuyang and Yao Nai.He didn't like Li He,Meng Jiao,Jia Dao,Huang Tingjian,and Chen Sanli,Yuan Chang of Qing Dynasty.Zhang Zhidong's poems were based on the Confucian thesocial.His guti poems included Li Bai's chaoyi,Du Fu's chenyu,Bai Juyi's pupai, and Su Shi's haofang; his jinti poems contained Li Shangyin's wanli,Wang Anshi's jingyan, Su Shi's tiaoda,and Wang Yuyang's shenyun. And mostly benefited from Sushi in both guti and jinti.And he amalgamated them all into his own qingqieyajian style.When he created poems, he'd taken a very cautious approach,in order to be not too hard and not too faible.guti xiongqi but not fangzi, jinti jingyan but not xianruo. Very neatly and strong. Both guti and jinti achieved a high level.He was on behalf of the land lord class,but he showed his sympathy to poor people.It proved he a loyalist to Qing Dynasty. To study his poems, We can learn in depth not only who he was,but also how the late Qing Dynasty running.