A Study On Zheng Banqiao's Poetry From The View Of Spiritual Literature

Zheng Banqiao's poetry is closely related to the spiritual literature. Under the context of the spiritual literature, this paper discusses his poetry's significance in the poetry history and his poetry's inditing personality, elaborates on the connotations and characteristics of Banqiao's poetry, explores the causes of his poetry style.Firstly, Zheng Banqiao's literature thoughts embody spiritual literature thoughts. This is consistent with the leading tendency of the spiritual school of Ming and Qing dynasties. They all stress on the expression of emotions, emphasize the sincerity and nature and highlight the value of independence and innovation. At the same time, there is a clear distinction of Zheng Banqiao's literature thoughts and the literature opinions of the most of the other spiritual poets: representative spiritual poets thoroughly abandon the traditional utilitarianism thinking while Zheng Banqiao pays much attention on poems'political effects.Consistent with the relations on literature thoughts, Zheng Banqiao's poetry is also similar in some ways but different in others with representative spiritual literature:In poetry connotations, Zheng Banqiao's poetry embodies spiritual literature's characteristics. That's to say, his poetry attaches much importance to expressing his personality and sincere feelings. However, there are still differences on the aspects of caring for the reality and people. Zheng Banqiao's poetry cares much for the society, which is a good complementary to the most spiritual literature for ignoring the real society and disregarding the practical functions of poems.In poetry art, Banqiao's poetry embodies the characteristics of spiritual literature of vividness and briefness. Meanwhile, different with other spiritual poets, the art of Banqiao's poetry shows distinct personality with calm joy, cold feeling, poetry-painting encirclement.Overall, there are basic characteristics of spiritual literature in Banqiao's poetry in literature thoughts, poetry connotations and art features. At the same time, there are expansions and innovations in Banqiao's poetry to the development of spiritual literature, gaining his status in the history of spiritual literature.The differences between Zheng Banqiao's poetry and representative spiritual literature while they are so alike lie in the following reasons: the impact of spiritual literature results in the sameness or similarity, while complex cultural factors as well as his own paintings made differences in the similarity.