Kong Shangren Poetry Study

Kong Shangren takes the 64th generation of Confucius, whose legend -Peach Blossom Fan enjoys a good reputation in the world. Hong Sheng shares the honor with Immortal Palace. So they were famous as South Hong North Kong. As a result of the great artistic achievement of Peach Blossom Fan, Kong Shangren enjoyed great reputation in the history of literature and ranking as one of the greatest play writers. In fact, he is also prominent in the poetry creation. But for a long time, his poem name is covered by drama's prestige, caused the posterity to neglect the research to his poetry. Based on the study of predecessors and his life experience, the article mainly explores Kong Shangren's creation path, the poetry content, the artistic features and his poetry ideas.First part: Kong Shangren's creation path. According to his legendary life, his literature creation is divided into 5 stages on the whole-before and after becoming an official, initially entering the Kyoto time, the Huaihai envoy time, the Kyoto country abundant time and being dismissed from office. Because of his different life experience and living conditions, his literature creation presents different appearance. But Kong Shangren was an open-minded person and had a light temper, so regardless of the circumstances, he was able to take matters easily. Therefore, whenever read, his works resented the world and detested mundane affairs clearly. But mostly he only faithfully recorded his own life experience, his public official experience, the experience of making friends, recording every event throughout his life.The second part: His performance content of poetry. His poetic composition is really rich, more than 1700 of which spreads till now. His poetry content is bountiful, and nearly covers the each aspect of the social life at that time. The article summarizes and analyses his attention to the following phenomenon and expressed his mood and viewpoint, including his concentration on reality, sympathy for common people's hardship, attention to personality, making friends, poem exchanges, scene description, tour reflection on old time and so on. Although there are not many works about people's life, he has actually fixed his attention on common people and show sympathy for them in his sincere experience foundation. His works more express self-life experience. But he was not moaning without being ill, only revealing his true feelings. Kong Shangren's"Being Real"passed through in his poem exchanges and scene works. The third part: The artistic features of his poetry. Kong Shangren's literature style was also diverse, ranking from ancient poetry, Lǜshi to Jueju poems. His poetry manifests its artistic pursue. He advocated the truth to life, attention to personality and diverse style. The ancient customs, five-syllable poetry are True,Plain and Gaolao, having the Han Wei customs handed down from the past. His legendary style of ancient poetry was characterized by freedom from rigid patterns, just like the great poets at the beginning of Tang Dynasty. then the seven—syllable poetry was certainly desolate, fresh and colorful, fusing the elegant demeanor of Tang and Song Dynasty. His poetry represented his deep skills in the description of image, expressing feelings, seeking the right words and so on. The article studies his artistic characteristics of poetry creation from his calm elegance, True,Plain and Gaolao poem style, thoughts on paper with ease, novel ideas, exquisite sentence carving and reliable language, etc.The fourth part: Kong Shangren's poetry ideas. Kong Shangren had the explicit viewpoint to the poetry. He thought poetry differed from region to region and the scenery contributed to their poetry. He opposed the use of heavy language, advocating the study of morality. He was against the constant literary elegant intonation, approving of the expression of personality in writing. He was also opposed to catering to the customs of the time constantly, advocating expressing the personal opinion. He advocated the poetry should seek truth, express the personality in writing and emphasize the importance of study.