The Outstanding Achievements Of Li Shangyin's Parallel Prose

This article focuses on the achievements and characteristics of Li Shangyin's Parallel Prose, and Li Shangyin's status in the history of the Parallel Prose. Li Shangyin is the master of Parallel Prose in Tang Dynasty, He absorbed and surpass the creative achievements on Parallel Prose from the Six Dynasties till late Tang.This article contains three chapters. The first chapter is divided into four sections, focusing on the evolution of Parallel Prose in several historical stages of early Tang, including flourishing Tang,mid Tang and late Tang.In a word,the development of Parallel Prose in Tang Dynasty before Li Shangyin is as follows.Firstly, "Four-talented Poets" become the representative of the Parallel Prose in early Tang Dynasty.Then,Zhang Yue and Su Ting create elegant and gorgeous Parallel Prose of flourishing Tang Dynasty.To the mid Tang Dynasty, Lu Zhi complete the change of Parallel Prose from elegant verse to useful article.In the late Tang Dynasty, Parallel Prose,which is representative of Li Shangyin, Wen Tingyun, Duan Chengshi, has reverted to that of Six Dynasties.The second chapter is divided into two sections, focusing on Li Shangyin's view of literature and Tao,and attitude to proses.The re-emergence of Parallel Prose in late Tang, because of the decline of Classical Prose Movement.Li Shangyin is special in the process, whose literary theory and creation should be thought highly of. Li Shangyin pay more attention to the expression of feelings in the prose, and his attitude to and creation of Parallel Prose is important for correcting the classical prose creation at that time.The third chapter is divided into six sections, focusing on the achievements and characteristic of Li Shangyin's Parallel Prose, and on this basis, revealed Li Shangyin's special status in the history of Chinese Parallel Prose.The achievement of Li Shangyin's Parallel Prose is that he strictly observes the creation standards of Parallel Prose, at the same time,has remarkable contribution on antithetical parallelisms,allusions, Rhythm and embellishment.As a result he create Parallel Prose works of his own characteristics.From the creation pattern point of view, the overall characteristics of Li Shangyin's Parallel Prose,including being good at lyric,adept in debate, implicit and mild.In the end,the status of Li Shangyin's Parallel Prose in the history of literary is evaluated.Li Shangyin's Parallel Prose succession of the tradition of the Six Dynasties, and absorbe the exploration results of the masters in Tang Dynasty, create Parallel Prose which are rich in characteristics of Tang literati,having a profound impact on future generations.In short, Li Shangyin's Parallel Prose become a link between past and future,and have an important position in the history of the development of Parallel Prose.