The Study On Sima Guang’s Responding Poems

Sima Guang was a good politician, historian. And he was also a prolific writer of poetry. Sima Guang created a lot of poetry.The number of responding poems is about300. Responding poems content reflects Sima Guang’s living environment and the focus of attention,responding poems object reflects Sima Guang’s political position and social standard. In short, responding poems creation reflects Sima Guang’s life state and the circle of friends. In this paper, the responding poems as the starting point, do basic research on Sima Guang’s life, his official situation and the relationship between friends. In order to show Sima Guang’s political cohesion, values, personality characteristics, social philosophy and concept of poetics. Sima Guang’s made lots of responding poems with the cultural celebrity of the Northern Song Dynasty. The poetry which he created represents the poetics thoughts of early Northern Song Dynasty. He organized and participated in the famous literary activities in the Northern Song Dynasty, like Senior Citizen’s party and Unaffected party. Through the study of the responding poems, we can explore Sima Guang’s position in the Northern Song Dynasty.The full text is divided into four parts:The first chapter, the general situation of Sima Guang’s responding poems. Including the inheritance of Xikun, the causes of responding poems, and the environment which promote his responding poems creation. The second chapter, the main objects in Sima Guang’s responding poems. Select six poets who write a large number of responding poems to Sima Guang. Show Sima Guang’s experience and main character and analysis the influence from others. The third chapter, The topic, content and ideological connotation of Sima Guang’s responding poems. From touring and chanting, Party and gifts, official to describe Sima Guang’s responding poems. The fourth chapter, the artistic style of Sima Guang’s responding poems. His artistic style is Simple and straightforward, full of philosophic and Confucian truth.