A Study Of Song Lian's Concept Of Prose

It is a very special period between Yuan and Ming Dynasty, which has the characteristics of political changes of dynasties and more to culture changes within the Han rejuvenation. During this period, psychology of scholar was influenced mostly by political instability and racial sense. And the paper, will basically study the mentality of Song Lian as a breakthrough in the research; grasp the concept of in-depth thinking the stage literature awareness through his articles.From the geographical point of view, the concept of the article of Song Lian effected by "Zhu xi's doctrine "of Jin hua and "Achievements and Successes Doctrine" of East Zhejiang, more pro-on to the diction argumentation and utilitarianism. Nevertheless, the attention to the practice and utility of the restruction of "Si wen" are the core of his artistic view throughout the whole gallery of his works.Therefore, writing for utility to the practice, wording for morality to the world, and diction for rectification to the order, become the key of compromising the form and content of article. Therefore, Song Lian's general concept of the article can be expressed as: Utilitarian as the center, argumentation is the base and diction is the instrument.In full consideration of these characteristics, the structure of the paper is built as follow: for the first chapter, the explanation of center stratum of his view, and the statement of his value of utility and classics through the "Si wen"reconstruction; for the second chapter, study on the cultivation of elegance and exquisiteness of the style on the basis of his thought—administration of mind and the present situation; for the third, the conclusion of his theory of article by the analysis of the texts in his works, as the supplementary and proof to his advocates. Here the combination of the first three chapters mentioned above and the last one which is from the historical point of view, brings out the outstanding characteristic,the unification of inner logic and the history. Thus there the whole are summarized in the fourth chapter in terms of the cause for that the idea cherished by Song Lian took shape and evolved under the backdrop of time then. In the paper, his writing of essays, is selected as the major subject, but it also embrace his pure aesthetic works for fully display of his literary orientation for elegant style and classics.Commented on the historical position, although the concept of the article of Song Lian had great influence in the Early Ming, it had not been appraised highly by the critics of the Mid Ming. However, until the Late Ming, the view from people about Song Lian's concept of prose had been becoming objectively, From then, Song Lian became the model of literati in the Ming Dynasty for his argumentation, utilitarianism and literature.