A Study On Song Dynasty's Landscape Prose

The Song Dynasty's landscape prose are numerous and rich in type.It is also a summit in the history of ancient landscape prose 's development.This thesis takes the Song Dynasty's prose as the main document object,trying to conduct an overall study on the development of landscape prose during the Song Dynasty from the perspective of literature and culture.The first four chapters of this thesis analysis the literacy development,style type,landscape description words and style innovation of the Song Dynasty's landscape prose.The fifth and sixth chapters discuss the comment words in the Song Dynasty's landscape prose from the perspective of culture,explaining the reflection of contemporary thoughts in Song Dynasty's landscape prose.The seventh chapter of this thesis mainly discuss the propagation of Song Dynasty's landscape prose and the establishment of some famous articles of Song Dynasty's landscape prose.The first chapter mainly discuss the development and changes of landscape prose.The first section discuss the connotation,nature of record and its development period.The first document body written in the form of record can date back to the local records of the Six Dynasties.Single piece landscape record evolves from the local records,whose development has experienced three different stages of county record,regional landscape record and single piece landscape record.The landscape record in the Six Dynasties has possessed the key elements of landscape literature already,which could be seen as the beginning of the Chinese ancient landscape record literature.The writers of the Six Dynasties' landscape records are mainly Buddhist and Taoist while those records mainly depict the Buddhist and Taoism famous mountains.Since Tang dynasty on,some unknown mountains are included in landscape records body.The journey record and pavilion record of the Tang Dynasty also have a lot of landscape description,and the experience gained through the creation of these two types of record has a significant impact on the creation of the same type record during the Song Dynasty.The second section discuss the development and changes of landscape Fu.Sao in the Warring States and great Fu in Han dynasty have significant impact on landscape Fu's creation of Song Dynasty.Single piece landscape Fu flourished in the Wei,Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties.Its creative experience in style form and artistic conception construction are absorbed and emulated by Song Dynasty's landscape Fu.The third section discuss the development of landscape writing in Preface and Inscription,etc.before Song Dynasty.The creative experience of those literary forms also influenced Song Dynasty's landscape prose.The spirit of see landscape in poem and wining parties of some literati before Song Dynasty also influenced Song People a lot,this section sorted out this questions systematized.The second chapter of this thesis discuss the main types and contents of the Song Dynasty's landscape record.The first section discuss the description of famous mountains and rivers in the landscape record bodies and the formation of specific geographical landscape book.The second section mainly discuss the description of newly found landscape scenery.While depicting newly found unnamed landscape scenery,the Song people put particular emphasis on the topic of "Shan Shui Dai Ren Er Xian",trying to express the strong will of appreciation by bosom friends.Besides,the topic of "Shan Shui Dai Ren Er Xian" also implies the awareness of human subjective initiatives emerged when the Song People evaluate the relationship between landscape scenery and human beings.Undoubtedly,this awareness' also relates to the development of humanism in the Song Dynasty.With the development of humanism,the Song people would particularly emphasized the advertising contribution on landscape nature made by literature works.The evaluation of relationship between human beings and landscape nature has gradually changed from"Jiang Shan Zhi Zhu" to "Ren Zhu Jiang Shan".Besides,there were numerous landscape scenery description in journey record and pavilion record in Song Dynasty,an elaborate description of the literacy style and contents of these two kinds of records are included in the third and fifth sections of this chapter.There are many different vocies on the conception and stylistic elements of travel notes,the fourth chapter of this thesis re-defined those questions mentioned above on the basis of wildly drawn eldership's related discussion.The third chapter analysis the various scenery describe skills and the theoretical basis of the Song Dynasty's landscape literature.The Ancient Prose Reform and its resulting literature style innovation such as "take Fu as record","take argumentative passage as record”were also discussed.The forth chapter of this thesis discuss the landscape description in Fu,Preface and Inscription,etc.There are lots of landscape description in Sao/great Fu and short passage Fu in the Song Dynasty.Owing to the difference of the literacy form,the landscape description exhibits large themes differences.Generally,the landscape description in Sao mostly serve for the expression of one specific theme.Landscape description in great Fu are mostly based on Realistic.But influenced by the cogitation of "exaggerating one place's scenery",the idea of Realistic did not put into effect in the process of great Fu' s writing.The short passage Fu like expressing leisurely life of Literati while describe scenery.The subject area of Fu expanded a lot in the process of its development in Song Dynasty,some contents which not be written by Fu before all enter into the scope of Fu' s written then.As a new genre,Prose Fu generated in the process of Fu' s development in Song Dynasty.Some classic passages of landscape Fu are written by Prose Fu precisely.In addition,there exists lots of landscape description in Preface and Inscription,the interactive and echo are also common between different literacy forms.This chapter gives a specific discussion on these issues mentioned before.The Song people's habit of debating leads to the existence of massive comment words in Song Dynasty's landscape prose.The Confucianism,Buddhism,Taoism of the Song Dynasty are involved when the Song people commenting on landscape proses.For example,the landscape prose especially the prose written by Confucianism consider some important proposition of Confucianism,such as Benevolence and its self-cultivation,verification,etc.The landscape prose written by Buddhist are good at the elucidation of Buddhism's principle,some Buddhist attempt to reconcile Confucianism and Buddhism,some Buddhism's landscape works even show the attempt of approaching Confucianism.The Taoist in Song Dynasty like to describe "blessed spot" and Taoist temple in landscape prose.They also like to depict the fairy world which established in the process of Taoist's development.The practice mode are also included in Taoist 's landscape works.The fifth chapter discuss the Confucianism,Buddhism,Taoism involved in landscape description of the Song Dynasty.It is also an effective way to investigate the comment words in Song Dynasty's landscape prose from the perspective of development procedure of Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism.Because of the vital relationship between landscape and seclusion,the issue of seclusion is also involved when the Song people commenting on landscape prose.The sixth chapter of this thesis investigate the Song people's concept of seclusion and the conflicts between different concepts of seclusion.The first section summaried the development trend of the concept of seclusion before the Song Dynasty.The second section analyzed the "Xiao Yin""Da Yin" and the conflicts between these two concepts.Furthermore,the concepts of "Zhong Yin" and "Dao Yin" also gained its development in Song Dynasty.Initially,Zhong Yin is a way of seclusion with the pleasure of both career and seclusion,which was developed into an universal code of conduct by the Song people,i.e.Dao Yin.The emphasis on Dao reveals an obvious transition from body seclusion to spirit seclusion when the Song people talking about seclusion.What the Song people seek is mostly Suitability Happiness when they talking about spirit seclusion.The third and fourth section of this chapter discuss the issues of body seclusion and spirit seclusion.The seventh chapter of this thesis discuss the influence and propagation of Song Dynasty landscape prose.Some famous landscape prose of the Song Dynasty such as Ouyang Xiu's Record of Drunk Man's Pavilioh&Su Shi's Chi Bi Fu are imitated and adapted frequently by subsequent generations,the artistic life of which has been long lasting therefore.Since the Southern Song Dynasty on,the appearance of ancient prose selection and travel notes selection provide a more favorable environment for the propagation of landscape prose.The classic status of some famous landscape prose of the Song Dynasty are also established gradually with the propagation of these selections.