The Study On The Prose Of Zhang Lei

Zhang Lei is a writer of North Sung Dynasty, one of the "Su-Shi's four Disciples". The researchers of past dynasties had spoken well of his prose. On the whole, these studies are short of system. Studying the prose of Zhang Lei systematically is not only beneficial to a thorough understanding about Zhang Lei, but also important to study the Su-Shi's students, even the Sung Dynasty prose's development.Most of Zhang Lei's lifetime was in turbulence and he had bad luck of political career. He spent the first half of his life in studying away from home, being a learner and Jack-in-office in the Chinese pavilion. The desire of devoting his life to the country gathered from the teenager's period drifts from making known to public to the inner with the fact that the tiny government's official life is destitute. Though the time in the Chinese pavilion was his peak in the official career, but he was only a literature server to the ruler. He still had no way to realize his great aspirations. The second half of Zhang Lei's life was in the relegation, change and being left unused for a long time. During this time the Confucian personality of Zhang Lei had played an important role in his life. No matter whether poor or rich, he still paid attention to the realistic life. To relieve the anxious in his life, he led Tao and Buddha into the construction of his personality. He grew up as a model of mature intellectual gradually. The experience in his life brought his works with substantial content and strong power.Though Zhang Lei had the desire of making contribution to the country, he had no chance but had to write papers for this. The main content of his prose is argumentative, which reflects the thinking about ruling a nation and bringing peace and order to a nation. The political comment and the historical treatise express the ambition that Zhang Lei ruled a nation and brought peace and order to the nation. The comment about writing expresses his theory about many literary questions; the discussion about other things is comprehensive and all-embracing. The narrative prose mainly includes two kinds: the first kind is the biographical prose which expresses his sentiment; the second who has certain historical value is about the event or the local conditions and customs. The prose of the second kind is mainly from the note body "Ming Dao Magazine" and "Add the Ming Dao Magazine ". The poetic body, the letter's body and others are his expressive prose which reflects his feelings about his lifetime of frustrations. Zhang Lei's conflict psychology with fierce fighting creates the excellent poetic body. The letter's body expresses his different opinions about different people and moves the readers with emotions. Others which are short in length but have inwardness and strong emotions include the papers about death and the prefaces or postscripts.Zhang Lei's prose melts into the expression, the structure and the language with his own character and experience. Zhang Lei's prose prominently displays the rational color. He unites narration and discussion and takes it as the main way to express which causes the principle better than the article. Moreover, he is also good at hiding his viewpoints behind other things in order to avoid the political matters. Therefore, his prose forms a feature of mild and roundabout. In the structure, Zhang Lei displays his superiority with abundant knowledge and knowing well about the ancient and modern times. The language of Zhang Lei's prose is natural, plain and has the imposing vigorous manner and the popular analogy. His style of writing and sentimental rhyme is along with himself.Zhang Lei's prose continues the good spirit of prose tradition and gives many new experiences for the development of prose. Zhang Lei, who is one of the outstanding disciples which are vigorously recommended by Su Shi, finishes the historic task that completes the literary arena of the North Sung Dynasty and affects the literature of the South Sung Dynasty.