Study On LiuSong Literature

Southern Song Dynasty,also known as Liu Song,refers to the historical period from 420 A.D Liu’s replacement of Jin to 479 A.D the foundation of Xiaoqi nation,in order to distinguish the later Song Dynasty which was established by Zhao Kuangyin,historian called the Southern Song Dynasty as "Liu Song".This thesis takes Liu Song literati and literature as the research subjects,proceeds the macro considerations and micro exploration on Liu Song literature,focuses on the discussion about the political basis of Liu Song’s royal life and literature,the geographical distribution of Liu Song’s family clan and literature,Liu Song literati’s literary exchange,the literary creation and aesthetic style,literary ideas and influences etc.Specifically,chapter 1 is the discussion about the political basis of Liu Song’s royal life and literature.This paper gives a specific discussion about Liu Song’s royal life and its great impact on the prosperity of Liu Song’s literature for the first time.The royal family of Li Song is proud of their literati identification,they learning and advocating literature not only because of the fondness of literature,but also the yearn for elegant gestures.The feasts and journeys follow the emperor promote the creation of Yingzhi literature;literati gathering and appreciation of works hasten the parturition of the poems with the same topic;the establishment of literature department and the selection of officials for their cultural talents is to make the literati become the transition to the continuation of honor for the noble family,the entrance to the officialdom for the ordinary being,and thus promote the formation of social evaluation system based on the literature.Chapter 2 mainly discusses the geographical distribution of Liu Song’s family clan and literature.This paper first studies the distribution of geography literature of the authors from Liu Song Dynasty,pointing out the important influence of the family clan on the geographical distribution of Liu Song’s literature.From the regional literati community,the community with more writers is the family clan with high status and think highly of cultivation of its future generations.The representative family clan includes the emerging noble clan Liu from Pengcheng,long-term prosperity noble clan Wang from Langya Linyi,fallen noble clan "Si Xing" from Wujun etc.From the number of works within the region,it is not enough to rely on the culture of the clan only,more is dependent on the junior’s fondness and endowment based on the popularity of the family culture.The typical case mainly include "San Xie",Bao Zhao,He Chengtian,Yan Yanzhi etc,discusses its role in the process of becoming a region with large quantities works in Chenjun,Donghai,Langya.Chapter 3 mainly illustrates the Liu Song literati’s literary exchange.This paper gives the overall attention for the Liu Song literati’s literary exchange for the first time.The most common literary types of literary exchange in Liu Song period is the present-response poem,jointing sentence poem,script,record,inscription etc,the present-response poem remains the most among those three literary type.This study focuses on the description of the background of the literary exchange,for example,the literary exchange between Yan Yanzhi and Xie Lingyun is closely related to the temporal political environment,the literary exchange between Xie Lingyun and Xie Huilian is related to the fetal direction of Xie Lingyun,the communication between Xie Lingyun and Fan Tai is based on the study of Buddhism,the communication between Bao Zhao and Hui Xiu is due to the close relationship.The discussion also focuses on some of the details that are easily overlooked but have an impact on literary exchange,analyze the research subject as objectively as possible.For example,the intimacy of the word contact,the changes of titles on both sides,the existence of literary exchange time,all of these can reflect the level of intimacy of these literati.This research especially gives the historic and geographical evidence,and explore the impact of geographical location on the creation of works and the occurrence of literary exchange.These are often the determinants of the creation of works and the completion of literary exchange.And this is also the innovation of this chapter.Chapter 4 mainly discusses the literary creation and aesthetic style of Liu Song’s literature.The value of Liu Song’s literature is reflected in its changes of predecessors and it’s irrigation for the later generation.Firstly,the landscape and the elucidation of the new realm of Liu Song’s landscape indicates the enjoyable place for landscape poets,and it is the new realm of Liu Song’s literature.Secondly,elaborates the aesthetic tendency of beauty and Liu Song’s literature,including the beauty of the rhetoric,the beauty of the harmonious sound and the beauty of the style creation.Thirdly,elaborates on the goodness and elegance and the creation of A New Account of the Tales of the World.Chapter 5 mainly discusses the literary ideas and influences,expounds the stylistic consciousness embodied in the fragmentary sporadic theory and creation practice,and the advocating and evolution of Liu Song’s literary achievements.Above all,Liu Song literature is the starting of Southern Dynasty.On the development of Liu Song’s literature,first,the relationship with the royal family is inseparable,secondly,it has the blood ties with the family clan from Weijin Southern and Northern Dynasty.The literature of Liu Song’s literature shows a group characteristic,this manifested in the geographical distribution of literature,and related to the influence of family clan;the group of literature showed the performance through royal family,monk,family clan etc;as for the life of literati,medicine,alcohol,Buddha are all part of the literati’s life,and it also have an impact on literary ideas and literary creation.There are some works with the same title,jointing sentence poems,March Three poem,Qixi poem,Dongzhi poem,Jing Yanglou poem,Suanshan poem,Passing ZhangLiang Temple Poem,Hua Lin fu,North Fighting Poem etc,all of these poems shared some traces of the tour with empero or the meeting of literati,which embodies the group of Liu Song’s literary creation.The changes of the creation and aesthetics of literature in the period of Liu Song Dynasty mainly reflects in the landscape literature and aesthetic pursuit.It is important to note that the literature of Liu Song Dynasty is inseparable from the pursuit of perfection and its formalism and luxury atmosphere of Liu Song Dynasty.The fiction creation also reflects the pursuit of elegance.In A New Account of the Tales of the World,there are some descriptions about literati intellect,appearance and manner,literature,demeanor,which traces back for the previous literati’ style and features;Record Guang Shi Yin is mainly about the Buddhist story,it shows that Liu Song’s literati attach importance to Buddhism,and it also is the projection of current literati’ style.But there is no systematic passages about Liu Song literature,so it is a pity that scholars can only research through the scattered distribution of literature.