Touring And Banquet's Ralation To Poetry And Prose

The activity of"Touring-and-Banqueting"is organized by some central figure in a certain historical period, with quite a few people to participate and to some places of natural beauty and during or after which some literary works are created. These activities all have an organizer or initiator, who has the power of leading such activities because of their eminence in either social status or personal fame. Assembled around this central figure, the literati either toured or banqueted or both, and they created numerous poems and proses, which makes the activity of"Touring-and-Banqueting"unique in the History of Chinese Literature."Touring-and-Banqueting"was a very popular social activity throughout the period of the Six Dynasties. Those ever-recorded large-scale"Touring-and-Banquetings"mainly are: the Tongque Stage Banquet and the Nanpi Tour during the period of the Wei Dynasty founded by Cao Cao; the Hualin Touring-and-Banqueting and the Jingu Touring-and-Banqueting during the period of the Western Jin Dynasty; the Orchid Pavilion Gathering of the Literati, the Shimen Tour, the Wuyi Tour, the Xiechuan Tour, the Longshan Assembly and the sacrifice held on the edge of a river organized by Huan Wen, and the Pengcheng Assembly organized by Liu Yu during the Eastern Jin Dynasty; the Mountain-River Tour and the Sacrifice held in the Yueyou Garden, the Touring-and-Banqueting organized by Liu Yu and the banquet after the Sacrifice held by the Prince during the Song Dynasty founded by Liu XX; the Fanglin Garden Sacrifice and the two Assemblies organized by Xiao Ziliang during the Nan Qi Dynasty; the Xuanpu Touring-and-Banqueting, the Orchid Stage Assembly and many of the assemblies organized by Emperor Wu during the Liang Dynasty founded by Xiao XX; the Touring-and-Banqueting organized by the last ruler of Chen and the assemblies of Xu Boyang and others; etc.To sum up, the overall characteristics of the"Touring-and-Banquetings"in the Six Dynasties are as follows:Firstly, these activities involved a large number of people, were held frequently and lasted a long period of time, thus having great significance in the history of Chinese literature.Secondly, these activities had a dense literary atmosphere and left a lot of great literary works for the world.Thirdly, creating literary works, appreciating the natural beauty and...