A Study On Poets Of Huaihai In Qing Dynasty

The term “Huaihai” in Qing Dynasty meant in general the Eight cities of Yangzhou Prefecture and the four cities of Tongzhou.The Huaihai Yingling ji of Ruanyuan,the Huaihai Yingling xuji of Wangyu and Ruanheng are the most intuitive proof.In recent years,some historical geography scholars had proposed the concept of “Huaihai cultural circle”,witch provides the theoretical foundation for this cultural religion.As a Independent cultural territory,Huaihai has a long history and profound cultural tradition. Althoug they are both watery region, Huaihai and Jiangnan are different in Natural environment and human geography.Huaihai is the vast waters region and became an independent region in history,the transport culture is the main characteristic of this region.Since Dong Zhongshu put forward the idea of “upright friendliness and bright virtue”in the Western Han Dynasty,and The members of Yangzhou School in Qing Dynasty recommended practical learning,the Loyal upright and the magnificent magnificent were deeply rooted in the style of literati in Huaihai for thousands of years. For the point of Regional Literature, Yangzhou has the outstanding advantages in its profound cultural heritage and traffic.Yangzhou is the center city of Huaihai and the cities of Taizhou and Tongzhou are the Auxiliaries.Huaihai had an enduring and stable literary circle in Qing Dynasty, the poets and the poetics were the most dynamic field.In the time dimension,Huaihai has been home to many famous poets of Qing dynasty.During the dynastic change from Ming to Qing,there are many kind and upright men Adhere to the national integrity Since the special geography location,the writing and activities of abherent poets in Huaihai were dramatic,such like Wu Jiaji and the members of Dongtao club,Fan Quan and the poets in Beihu,the Lee family and the poets in Zhaoyang,and the bard like Taoji and many other poets.They left the magnificent chapter in the Early Qing Dynasty in Huaihai. With the gradual stability of Manchu regime,a large numbers of Huaihai poets maintaind many close contacts with the literary leaders like Zhou Lianggong,Wang shizhen,Kong Shangren and so on. Official career became many poets choices such lake dubble wang of Jiangdu,Weiyang er miao,and Miao yuan,Gong hongli,which were the members of “Fifteen poets of Jiang-zuo”.In the mid Qing Dynasty, Yangzhou?s economy recovered. with salt industry prospering, salt merchants poets gradually dominate the poetry of Huaihai. Under the influence of salt merchants poets, Yangzhou?s local entertainment culture and literature complement each other, therefore Yangzhou?s culture reached its peaked and many merchants are also important members of the poets in Huaihai. Until the Qianlong and Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, with Yangzhou School prospering, Huaihai scholars created full of literary works and extraordinary attainments, such as Jia Tianzu, Wang Zhong, Ren Dachun, and their creation indicates the shift of center from rhetoric to knowledge, from which we can still read the perseverence of literariness, however. And the highest achievements undoubtedly belongs to Huang Chengji?s Meng Gai Tang Poetry.In addition, Huaihai region had a considerable number of literature family in Qing Dynasty, such as Maos in Rugao, Qiaos in Baoying, Fans in Tongzhou. Literature family often emerged a large number of excellent women poets, which are urgent to be studied.The Huaihai Yingling ji and its continuation,as the regional poetry collection of Huaihai in Qing dynasty,made great contribution in recording the poetic memory of local literature and showing the literature heredity of Huaihai. During Jiaqing period,Wang Zhixuan,the officer of Yangzhou, edited the Huaihai Tongsheng Ji.This poetry anthology involved many poets which had his official travel in Huaihai,and the literature locale of the traval poetry,the painting poetry,and the poems recalling antiquity.At the same time,this book can also be the evidence of “Huaihai”in toponymy.These poetry anthologies,which were named after “Huaihai”, had clear local landscape writing.We should pay attention on them.Overall, in Qing dynasty, depending on the geographical advantage, under the influence of the neighboring culture and local humanistic tradition, that worship ancient culture and literature, heart-mind theory, Huaihai region formed the human atmosphere and poetic characteristics that is erudite and simple.As far as the whole literary achievements is concerned, Huaihai region is slightly less than but not far behind the south region of Yangzijiang, becoming an important literature territory in Qing dynasty of its own.