A Study On LanTing Poems

After the capital of the Eastern Jin Dynasty moving to the south, official families make great painstaking efforts for many years to keep the society a steady growth. By the middle of Eastern Jin Dynasty, the climax of literature and art arrive and literary creation also make a considerable progress. At that time, metaphysical poems prevail for a long time ,Lanling poems regarded as a typical example.This essay have a search to LanTing poems from four aspects. First is the background of LanTing poems. The manners and morals of the society change from worshiping indulgence in Western Jin dynasty to reason and self-discipline in Eastern Jin dynasty. Moreover, philosophical composition of metaphysics gradually seep into the literary. Second is the two essential attributes of LanTing poems, metaphysics and landscape. Tracing the development of Wei and Jin dynasty, metaphysics blend with landscape step by step, which give a full mental character show to the metaphysicists. Third is the content of LanTing poems. The common theme in LanTing poems is relieving thoughts and feelings in landscape, meanwhile, these poets have different tendency to cherish bright style or philosophic theory. Fourth is the forms of LanTing poems. LanTing poems show many distinctive traits in using four and five words language style, allusions ,rhymes ,etc.In conclusion, we should pay more attention to LanTing poems' role and function in Chinese poem's development than their own literary value.