A Study On Tang Family Consciousness And Poetry Writing

As the basic cell of society and forming a multifaceted influence and infiltration of social and cultural life,the family is an important feature of China’s feudal era.Family consciousness is rooted in the spiritual world of the ancient Chinese literati and influences their personality shaping,life trajectory,value orientation,and thoughts and emotions.The core connotation of family consciousness mainly includes four dimensions: traceability consciousness,continuation consciousness,belonging consciousness and responsibility consciousness.Tang poetry is an obvious manifestation of the prosperity of Tang Dynasty literature,as an important literary genre for Tang Dynasty literati to depict reality,express ideas and emotions,respond and present,Tang poetry has many concentrated or fragmentary writings for family consciousness.Tang poetry’s writing of family consciousness includes both explicit and implicit writing.This article is divided into two parts.The first part discusses the explicit way of writing tang poetry on family consciousness and its implications.The first chapter discusses the self-consciousness of the family consciousness of the Tang Dynasty.In addition to being keen to trace the virtue and important deeds of the ancestors,having ardent expectations for the development and the future continuation of the family,taking the initiative to take on family responsibilities and pass on to the descendants,and having a strong sense of belonging and attachment to the family relatives and the local hometown,the self-consciousness of the family consciousness of the Tang Dynasty is also reflected in: first,consciously taking the family as an important symbol of identity;second,consciously taking the family factor as an important reference for the evaluation of talent and morality;third,consciously taking the family interest as the basis for judging the behavior trade-off.The second chapter discusses the presentation and implications of family traceability consciousness in Tang poetry.The poetic writing of Tang poetry on the consciousness of family traceability is concentrated in the writing of “ancestral memory”,mainly including the origin of surnames,ancestral virtues and deeds,family custom and family scholarism.The different modes of “ancestral memory” writing in Tang poetry contain very different literati mentalities or emotions.Self-expression is mostly related to the acquisition of realistic self-confidence,expressions from others is mostly out of praise for descendants,merger expression is mostly to obtain emotional consensus,and onlooker expression is mostly used to express the feelings of historical vicissitudes.The first three often embody discursive ethics such as humility,harmony,and prudence.The third chapter discusses the presentation and implications of family continuity consciousness in Tang poetry.Tang poems have a comprehensive writing on the multi-level connotation of family continuation consciousness,which not only depicts the expectations of cultural families in terms of continuing the bloodline of descendants,family property,family custom and family scholarism,but also presents a universal secular practice mode of realizing family lineage continuation by means of imperial examination,official career,marriage.And to a certain extent,Tang poems also reflects the rational thinking of cultural families at the moral level,that is,the self-restraint of virtue and the improvement of the development rationality of “reverence” and “goodness” that integrate into the family continuation thinking.The fourth chapter discusses the presentation and implications of family belonging consciousness in Tang poetry.Family belonging consciousness includes two kinds of directions: kinship and geographical belonging.The poetic presentation of the consciousness of kinship belonging in Tang poetry mainly includes the description of kinship life and the depiction of various kinship ethical affections.Geographical belonging is a category with rich connotations,and the Tang Dynasty literati had feelings for a certain region due to family factors,generally including the possibility of the origin of the surname,distant ancestral residences,ancestral homes,family settlements,family residences,which are all presented in Tang poetry.The fifth chapter discusses the presentation and implications of the sense of family responsibility consciousness in Tang poetry.The implementation of the Tang Dynasty imperial examination system and the gradual weakening of the privileges of the noble Family deepened the integration and ties between the personal careers of family members and the continuation of family lineages,prompting the Tang Dynasty literati to build their own ideals and put them into practice with family interests as the core,and presented their feelings and processes in poetry.Since ancient times,China’s family-nation sentiment isomorphism form of state power structure,and the return of the ruling ideology to Confucianism under the unified situation of of the Tang Dynasty,made the family-nation sentiment,which is an important component of the personality of Confucian ideal man,more deeply and widely stimulated among the literati community,and the poetic writing of family-nation developing had also emerged constantly in Tang poetry.The sixth chapter discusses the way,characteristics,and meaning of the family consciousness writing in Tang poetry.The family is the social organization in which no matter who will be in it,and the emotions,concepts,or behaviors evoked by the family consciousness as the root are not new to people in the similar family ethical ecosystem.So the value of the Tang poetry family consciousness writing,in addition to showing a certain social and historical form,is more important is to convey the universal life experience through the unique linguistic form of poetry,so as to produce an artistic charm that is enough to cause emotional resonance.The explicit way of writing the Tang poetry family consciousness mainly includes two types: straight style and folding type.Due to the indoctrinating function,communicative function,aesthetic characteristics and lyrical nature of poetry,the explicit writing of Tang poetry on family consciousness shows many differences in style of writing and carrier,authenticity compared with Tang Dynasty documentary history books and novels.The next part discusses the implicit writing of Tang poetry on family consciousness,that is,the influence of family consciousness on the creation of Tang poetry.On the basis of an overview of the influence,Chen Ziang,Liu Zongyuan,Jiaoran,Cao Ye are taken as case studies to discuss the specific influence of family consciousness on the core characteristics or literary concepts of the four poets’ poetry creation.The seventh chapter discusses the main influence of family consciousness on the creation of Tang poetry,and summarizes it into four aspects: first,to influence the inheritance of family literary concepts and creative methods,and promote the prosperity and development of Tang poetry;second,to influence the poet’s absorption and acceptance of social ideas and concepts,and to deepen the connotation of Tang poetry;third,to influence the poet’s life trajectory and broaden the display of Tang poetry on social history;fourth,to stimulate the poet’s creative motivation and enrich the emotional accumulation of Tang poetry.The eighth chapter is a case study of Chen Ziang,discussing the influence of family traceability consciousness and family responsibility consciousness on poets’ literary concepts and poetry creation.The Chen Ziang family has a tradition of contemplating the great destiny and shows obvious characteristics of historical circularism.Chen Ziang’s statement that the essence of the article has withered for five hundred years,as a representation of the view of literary history,reflects his thinking mode of “Tiandao” interpretation of the trend of literature,whose ideological foundation is the Concept of Destiny which has the color of historical circularism.The connotation of Chen Ziang’s view of literary history mainly includes the concept of literary development which takes change as the norm,the pattern of literary development which the prosperity and concealment of the essence of literature always appears in a cycle,and the grasp of literary value which takes the expression of the “tian dao” and country affairs as the main purpose.This view of literary history has a direct impact on his new literary logic based on retro,the choice of retro reference based on Jian’an literature,the interpretation of the essence of literary and the ideal of literary change,and his overall style of the retro practice of poetry.The ninth chapter is a case study of Liu Zongyuan,which discusses the influence of family traceability consciousness,belonging consciousness,and responsibility consciousness on the poet’s emotional generation and the characteristics of some poems.“Look north to Chang’an” scene often appears in the lyrical literary works after Liu Zongyuannan’s relegation,which is the Scenarioal character of his nostalgia.Liu Zongyuan’s nostalgia has a special cultural meaning in the Tang Dynasty,the essence of speciality lies in its nostalgia is not only because of the frustration or geographical distance,but also from the great cultural decline,the implied essence is strong and incompetent to escape.The root of this desire lies in his sense of superiority as a cultural elite,a scholar elite,and a Person of Chang’an.Liu Zongyuan unleashed the emotional pain by enjoying the landscape,is to follow the example of Xie Lingyun to make compensation for the lack of superiority.The tenth chapter is a case study of Jiao Ran,discussing the multifaceted influence of family traceability consciousness and family responsibility consciousness on the poetic practice of poets.The poet monks Jiao Ran have a strong sense of family.There are many fragments in his poems that trace their ancestors or cite the ancestors of the family sages,repeatedly traced back other people’s family in Communitive portry,and some poetry comments also show the obvious infiltration of family ethics into critical ethics.The deep-rooted family consciousness,as well as the family culture Confidence further strengthened by the literary trend of the times,prompted Jiao Ran to consciously inherit the Culture of the Xie family,the important of which,the first is poetry,the second is landscape sentiments and poetic writing of landscapes,the third is the religious feelings.Obviously affected by Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao’s poetic writing and the aesthetic ideal of “expressing sincere feelings” is the interweaving and concentrated embodiment of these three.Jiao Ran’s weighing of the relationship between poetry and Buddhism has undergone a transformation from the peaceful inviolability in the early days to the prominent contradictions in the later years.However,Jiao Ran,who is gradually aging and committed to Buddhist practice,although he has deeply realized the bondage of poetic practice to his own Buddhist practice,he still carefully sorts out the Poetic Style behind which the elite consciousness of literary elites is a spiritual support that cannot be ignored.The eleventh chapter is a case study of Cao Ye,which discusses the influence of family traceability consciousness on the poet’s personality characteristics,demeanor,and poetry creation.In the late Tang Dynasty,Cao Ye traced Cao Cao as ancestor,and this seemingly illusory “ancestral attachment” truly stimulated the family cultural identity and had a substantial impact on Cao Ye’s personality,officialdom,and poetry creation.Cao Ye’s retrospective ancestor behavior and its poetic writing,as a literati’s style of “ancestral attachment”,present some pattern characteristics of universal significance: first,the selective prominence of specific ancestral objects driven by realistic needs;second,the social network expansion on the basis of “ancestral attachment”;third,the interaction and fusion between“ancestral attachment” and affirmative acceptance in the literary trend of the times.