Chengzhai Poetry And Poetic Theory

This paper has an attempt to describe the course of the creative work's evolving, and the developing road of poet's opinions, by organizing Yang Wan-li's poetryproducts and assessing his opinions on poetry creation. Above all two, it has made asummery on Chen-zhai's attributions in the develop-ment of the poetry and his statusof the poetry history.This paper has concluded the poet's more than forty years' creative life, especially to his creative life. He indulged in the poems of Jiang-xi poetry group when he was young, discarded it off and was lost into Ban-shan's and other poets' rhythm of lateTang Dynasty when he became an adult, and at last he founded a new poetry style-"Cheng-zhai style ".From the road of Chen-zhai's studying poetry, we can give an describe of his travel ideas on the theory of poetry. As we known, Yang Wan-li is not only a poet, but also a thinker. Chen-zhai's great attainments on Moral Philosophy, which affected his product and accelerated to instruct his theory of poetry creation, is not to be overlooked. According to the critics of the Southern Song Dynasty, there is a fashionable idea-commenting poetry by Zen. All those above are the important reasons of the "Chen-zhai style".Summarizing the travel of Chen-zhai's products, we can make his poetry creation clear that how much he inherited or changed. Knowing well the characteristic of the "creative style of poetry", We can deductive reasoning his steady period of poetry creation.The core of the paper is to discuss when Chen-zhai's creation went into the steady period. Another core of the paper is to summarize his theory of poetry creation.