Research On Parallel Prose Theory In Liu Chao Li Zhi

Sun Deqian was an important theorist on parallel prose theory in late Qing dynasty and the early Period of the Republic of China, whose parallel prose theory masterpiece Liu Cao Li Zhi was based on the inheritance of his predecessors and again has its own new developments. In the book, seeing the Six Dynasties'theories as its model in his comments, Sun promoted the parallel prose theory of combining parallel prose with prose and advocated that parallel prose style and the prose style should be combined in writing parallel prose. A real style was the combination of parallel prose and prose. Sun highlighted artistic conception believing that to make comments on whether a parallel prose is good or not is not to see the application of the flowery language but to see the artistic conception of the parallel prose. The artistic conception is the real secret of the parallel prose in the Six Dynasties. Sun preferred the concept of the hidden and the flexible in his comments on the parallel prose in the Six Dynasties . At the same time, Sun put forward that the way to make the article have artistic conception was to use the method of Qian Qi Nei Zhuan and to turn the artistic concepts to let them connected. Sun attached importance on the turning of the concepts of articles, advocating that in writing parallel prose the method of Qian Qi Nei Zhuan should be followed, namely, to turn the concepts freely without using function words and at the same time not to make the concepts both external and internal unconnected. Only by using appropriately the method of Qian Qi Nei Zhuan can we make the articles have artistic concept. In addition, Sun especially appreciated ShuYi in his commenting on parallel prose in the Six Dynasties and among the Six Dynasties'writers, he gave an extremely high praise to Ren Fang and Shen Yue's achievements on parallel prose writing. Sun's Liu Chao LiZhi is a summary of parallel prose theories and offers men of literature of later ages, parallel prose learners and theoretical researchers on parallel prose theory in the Six Dynasties , very good references.