Eight-legged Essay In Ming Dynasty To The Deviation And Fusion Of Literature

Eight-legged essay is a kind of standardized essay writing form for selecting theintelligent people. It had formed in Ming Dynasty and prevailed in Ming and Qing Dynasty,and it had prominent influence for the literators and literature of Ming and Qing Dynasty.There are many opinions of evaluating Eight-legged essay in history. There are appraisers aswell as more criticsThis research enters from Eight-legged essay in Ming Dynasty, on the base of masteringskeleton of the origin and development of Eight-legged essay and basic characters, discussesthe relationship between the Eight-legged essay and literature in Ming Dynasty, analyze itsabundant literature factors and the complex relationship that the Eight-legged essay andliterature conflict with each other, influence each other and further explore the inner deepmechanism and essential reason of the formation of literature characters.On the base of above research, further specify that Eight-legged essay in Ming Dynastyis the initial stage of creating the style and different from that in Qing Dynasty. It has moreactive and reasonable factors in it, which combines some literature factors, distillate ofliterature formation and rigid format in Ming Dynasty, which has decisive function for theformation of some creative features of various literature styles such as poesy in Ming Dynasty,drama and novel, etc. And it promotes further prosperity of this kind of literature critics,especially the critics of novel. Therefore, we should give objective and historical evaluation tothe Eight-legged essay.