The Research On The XIWEN In Tang Dynasty

This article summarized the function and the implication of XIWEN, outlinedthe origin, form and development of XIWEN before Tang Dynasty, made thestatistics to the number of the XIWEN in Tang Dynasty. In this foundation, Iclassified the XIWEN in Tang Dynasty according to the the function.Generallyspeaking,they can be divided into four kinds: to give explicit instructions or directionsand persuade enemy to surrender, to denounce or disclose the evil or error of enemmy,to draft or call the sodiers or the officials, to appoint or employ somebody. Thecontent of the XIWEN in Tang Dynasty was abundant:they had reflected politicalor military struggle in Tang Dynasty, had reflected the daily life and prevailingcustom in Tang Dynasty,had reflected some situations of ideology.The XIWEN in Tang Dynasty had also reflected the traditional culture ofChina, they had reflected the idea of military strategist, had reflected the thought ofConfucianists, had also reflected Taoism's certain thought in the certain degree. Themain creator of the XIWEN in Tang Dynasty were the scholars who worked in thegeneral's office, like Luo Binwang, Wang Bo, Li Shangyin, Cui Zhiyuan,Hu Zeng,Wei Zheng, Fang Yanzao, Zu Junyan and so on. The creation of the XIWEN in TangDynasty had comparatively close relationship with the test system of Tang Dynasty.The ability of XIWEN's creation were demanded in some departments in TangDynasty, some positions needed test the ability of XIWEN'S creation, thisphenomenon had promoted the creation of the XIWEN in Tang Dynasty.In the rear half part of the article,I mainly elaborated the the characteristics ofthe XIWEN in Tang Dynasty. The characteristics in the content mainly displaysin:to degrade the enemy and to raise themselves, having the practical utilities, theactual situations coexists with the false situations and the themes were extensively.The artistic characteristics are: the sentences in pairs, the language is majestic, thelanguage have intense emotions; Multitudinous rhetoric techniques had been utilized—contrast, exaggeration, allusion and so on. In the end of the article I brieflyelaborated the differences and the relationships among the XIWEN, the YIWEN andthe LUBU in Tang Dynasty.