| Yuan Chang was one of the famous personages in modern China. He was a notable minister to be killed in Gengzi incident for his peaceful attitudes in diplomacy. His achievements were recorded in many historical literatures such as Historic Manuscripts of Qing Dynasty and Series Biography of Qing Dynasty. In the researching achievements of modern history whose researching object is Yi He group, Yuan was mentioned for many times as his importance. In addition, Yuan was a famous and successful poet. He was a representative poet of Zhe faction, Tongguang group in latter-Qing Dynasty. The poetic group of Tongguang was the terminal tip of Chinese Traditional Poems and its poetic theories is the summery of the poetic traditions. It is necessary to know Tongguang Group if you want have a understanding of poem development, and if you want to know Tongguang Group, it is necessary to know the representative poets. To be as one of the famous poets in Chinese later-day poems, Yuan should have his own position in Chinese literature history. The paper aim at giving a objective presentation of his experiences, the contents and style of his poems; researching his affection in the history of poems; reminding people to remember this poet who was forgot or neglected.The paper was divided into three parts. In the first chapter, it talks about his family, experience and his thought. Of his family and his deeds before Gengzi incident, it is mentioned very little in literature. In this chapter, it is speculated his family through his and his relative's poems; it talk about his deeds and the transit of his thought and it make a deep researching of his deeds in Gengzi incident in order to make a recognition of himself and his poems.In the second chapter, it talks about the contents of his poems. As the content, his poems can be divided into three styles: the poem of the depression for the contemporary times, the poem of expressing himself through landscape and the poem of communication of his poetic friends. In the introducing the last style, it makes a detail description of the situation of the communication with his poetic friends through many poem series. His poetic friends have a deep friendship with him in different times and play the different roles in the formation of his poem style. Their approval of Yuan's poem can help us to have a objective understanding of them.In the third chapter, it talks about the arts of his poem. In the first section, it talks about the roots and history of his poems. The main point is discussing the effect of the poems of Huang Tingjian and Wang Anshi towards Yuan's. In the second section, it talks about the transformation of his poem in the former times and latter one through the style and arts of poems. In the third section, it talks about the roles of Yuan in Tongguang Group. |
