On The Song Dynasty And Its Influence On Literature

Lun was an important type of writings in ancient china ,and had been used in imperial examination. In Song Dynasty, lun was used in all kinds of examination, which exerted a tremendous influence on the literature writing of the Song. In this academic paper , we try to make an systemic study on lun used hi the imperial examination in Song Dynasty and its influence on the literature at that times.This thesis consists of five parts as preface, section â… , section â…¡, section â…¢ and section â…£, altogether 37 thousand words.The preface is to show the necessity and initiative of this thesis on lun used in the imperial examination in Song Dynasty.Section â…  reveals the development of lun before Song Dynasty and the process that lun entered the imperial examination. Before Song Dynasty ,lun had been experienced a long source of development and had been ripe both on version writing and on theory summary in the South and North Dynasty. After the imperial examination was carried out, it was naturally used in and had ever taken place of poem and fu and become the most important type of writings in the imperial examination.Section â…¡ clarifies the concrete condition that lun was used in every subject of examination at that times. Lun was one of the most important types of writing in the examination of jinshike and zhike in Song Dynasty, and it was the longest and the most stably type used in them.Section â…¢ reveals the historical process that lun used in imperial examination stylized and its reason. In the South Song Dynasty, by comparison, lun could be written free in the examination. However ,with the influence of jingyi and fitting its development as a type of writing in the imperial examination, lun came to stylize and finally formed a fixed writing formula-ten paragraphs.Section â…£ exposes the influence of lun used in imperial examination on the literature of Song Dynasty which consists of four aspects: paying lun and literature writing; lun used in the imperial examination and the Movement of Chinese Prose in South Song Dynasty; lun used in the imperial examination and the poem and prose of Song Dynasty; critics on lun used in the imperial examination and critic literature.