A Study Of Wen Zisheng Anthology

Wen Zisheng Anthology is one of the poetry and prose collection of Wen Zisheng who was one of the Three Northern Dynasties Genius.Wen Zisheng is both a representation of the Northern Dynasties Hanmen outstanding literary figures,a famous literary scholars in the Northern Wei Dynasty,one of the historians,and also the precepts makers and calendar amendment of Eastern Wei regime. He was on the key points when the Northern Dynasties literature occurred qualitative changes in the troubled times. His unique creation represented the attitude of Hanmen bachelor. He first raised the arts banner which advocated pristine and gorgeous. On the one hand, he maintained the matrix and Northern Dynasties literary qualities. On the other hand, he absorbed the art of the Southern Dynasties literary skills and methods. He made an effort to integrate the Northern Dynasties and the Southern Dynasties literary culture. He did not forget confucian argumentation,but also implantated new and beautiful ideas. He neither simply subsidenced the dilemma of the Southern Dynasty style nor continued the artistic style of the early Northern Wei Dynasty. He not only imitate but also innovation. He opened up a new path which bred new literary trend in the inherent essence. He made the Northern Dynasties literature restructured and upgraded. He stressed the theme of Hanmen Literature which widely impacted the descendants.Wen Zisheng Anthology was Wen Zisheng's literary production crystallization,which the earliest collected in the later Northern Wei period.However,as the results of the difficults of making copies,chaos caused by war and so on,his anthology and literary articles has been lost for a long time.In later period of Ming Dynasty,only then the collection of Wen Zisheng Anthology was published.At this point,some of the modern scholars or re-made the examination of it ,or made detailed annotation,or did slightly solutions,which may be said that each has his good points.But regretfully,a comprehensive, systematic,and deep research achievements of Wen Zisheng Anthology is very rare,is still a blank on the whole.Taking this into consideration,this article attempts to fill this blank slightly.In order to make the synthetic study of Wen Zisheng Anthology and makes the whole judgment,it was mainly by the theories and the knowledge of collection of the main application,the science of emendation,the science of abstract,methods of research,induction,deduction,comparison and so on.This article is composed of two parts,the main text and the appendix.The main text except the introduction and the conclusion, altogether eight chapter,27 launches.The elaboration emphatically from the following several aspects:First,analyse the chaotic bureau of later period of Northern Wei and the trend of the north and south literature,inquire the historical inevitability of the anthology.Unify biography experience of Wen Zisheng,determine some certain articles writing background and the concrete time.Discriminate the collection of the anthology for the first time and the special characteristic.From this demonstrated ,to show the unique merit of Wen Zisheng himself and his anthology.Second,from the history book lists and the existing books to eek the trace of Wen Zisheng Anthology by studying the existence,disappearance and distribution of Wen Zisheng Anthology and his other writings.And analyse several existing collections of Wen Zisheng Anthology point out their similarities and differences,success and failure.Third,by the specific works included in Wen Zisheng Anthology paper,analyze its rich ideological contents macroscopically,and then explicit the author's political and ideological inclination of advocates.Put forward my own views to the evaluation of the Wen's artistic features against the predecessors,and to re-examine artistic characteristics of the anthology.Fourth, with the comments of himself and his masterpieces in history,to re-reconsider a precise judge to him.Namely:Join in the incidents should be affirmed;Scholars of crown certainly not undeserved fame; Han ling stone is a eternal conclusion; it was not avoid to criticize complicated temperament and tedious sentences.Fifth, on the predecessors basis and consulted the inclusion and quote of many kinds of books to re-compile Wen Zisheng Anthology,which conteins 28 proses,11 poems,and 5 lost sentences,and write key notes and collect records for each of them.The key notes lies in make a subtotal which contains the writing background,the writing time,the content general idea and the artistic feature.The appendix has two parts of constitutions:First, compile the biographical data of Wen Zisheng.In order to expand the material scope,and the research space,so the key point lies in comb and list the collection of anecdote. Second, The main references and papers.Wen Zisheng was the witness of the chaotic situation in the late Northern Wei Dynasty and the Eastern Wei regime controlled by new Warlords. He was both the last Terminator to the Northern Wei Dynasty literature and the first men entered the new realm of Northern Dynasties literature. He was the pioneer that who advanced the communication of North-South literature.Wen Zisheng as the opening remarks of the Northern Dynasty literature esthetic atmosphere, his creation characteristic and the creation idea concentrate in Wen Zisheng Anthology.The angle which unify from the microexamination and the macroexamination performs the perspective of Wen Zisheng Anthology,is advantageous in underlines the exceptional place of Wen Zisheng and his excellent works.Expliciting his influential role is also helpful for thoroughly analyzes the literature condition of the Northern Dynasty and the difference special characteristic of the Southern and Northern Dynasties literature.Through completely collected and systematically arranged the previous dynasties record commentary and cite of the Wen Zisheng Anthology,may much more clearly discovers and establishes the true status and the widespread influence of Wen Zisheng Anthology in the Chinese literary history.Through further comprehensively,precisely and systematically study of Wen Zisheng Anthology can provide the first literature material well to the academic circle's research in the future without doult.