Chen Yunping And Xi Lu' Ci

Chen Yunping,Xi Lu,comes from Siming,is a ci writer who lived between the late Southern Song Dynasty and the early Yuan Dynasty.He was very famous for ci at his time and had two ci collections handed down named"Rihu Lake's Fishing Day to Sing"and"Xi Lu's Learning from Zhou Bangyan".He was also famous for poems and had one poem collection handed down named"Xi Lu's Poems".This thesis is to make a systematical study on Chen Yunping and Xi Lu'ci based on the research of the biographic history of Chen Yunping,the artistic characteristics of Xi Lu's ci and their status in the Ci history.Firstly,the biographic history of Chen Yunping.Chen Yunping was born in aristocratic family of a government offical.He had deep teaditional literature origins,but he failed in the imperial examination and was auspicious in the offical career. He wandered in normal year,made friends and had poetry responsory activities with several ci writers lived in the late Southern Song Dynasty such as Zhou Mi,Wang Yisun and Zhang Yan.He was put into the prison because of an incident before the perdition of the Southern Song Dynasty.Then,he hid in the mountain.In the early Yuan Dynasty, Chen Yunping went to the northern capital Dadu,later came back home because he refused to be an official in Yuan.Then,he secluded in tne mountain until die.Secondly,the artistic characteristics of Xi Lu's ci. There are four main categories in the subject matter:the traveler's melancholy,the scenery,the love and the birthday greeting.There are three artistic characteristics.First,to use the"poetical writing method",not only to learn from one former ci writer but also embrace everything that is useful.Second,there is a heavy sence of life experience contained under the surface of the mild,implicit and elegant words,the first is being weary of wandering through official career and longing for returning home,the second is the grief of poor scholars,the last is the life consciousness,together constitute the whole content of the sense of life experience from the outside to the inside.Thirdly,the status of Chen Yunping and Xi Lu's ci in Ci history.Xi Lu's ci has unique individual character and rich connotation,many criticals pay attention to it,some of them like it very mach.Xi Lu's ci has a certain influence in the ci-circle of the Qing Dynasty.Chen Yunping can be regarded as an important ci writer as famous as Zhou Mi,Wang Yisun and Zhang Yan.