| Litterateur Biography is one of the traditional biographies about China official history, whose heroes were all best-known or famous Litterateurs for their literary talent, and Between the25official histories from SHI JI to QING SHI GAO, this part was created in17writings. For a long time, because there has been only pieces of concern in Litterateurs Biography from academic circles, based on previous research, the author makes more comprehensive and in-depth analysis on its occurrence, development and content, hoping to supplement on its study.The thesis is based on the punctuation-edition twenty-five histories published by Zhonghua Book Company and contains two parts. The first part is the historical origins of Litterateurs Biography, and the second part is interpretation of its content.The first part is the three stages about Litterateurs Biography:occurrence, establishment and development. Si Maqian selected literature known Qu Yuan, Jia Yi and Sima Xiangru into the biographies, and recorded their representative works with great length respectively. HAN SHU didn’t only expand the number of literati biography, but also increased YI WEN ZHI in addition, in which the part of poetry and rhapsody can be regarded as a brief history of literature. SAN GUO ZHI’WEI ZHI ER SHI YI which recording famous scholar and writer intensively such as Wang Can, Chen Lin and Xu Gan, became the guidance to the Litterateur Biography. The three official history above having a inspiration, or promotion,or guidance are the occurrence phase of the Litterateur Biography. Litterateur Biography was established by Fan Ye in HOU HAN SHU, which benifted from the advancement of literature and its gradual awakening.The establishment of Litterateur Biography is also of great significance, in which literati were first to be recorded as an independent subject, and independence of their principal value and literary activities were fully noticed. And after its founding, descendants of history repairing followed this with great passion. After the Tang Dynasty, editing the former official history was monopolized by official, or personal writing and the collective preparation by establishment of the history Bureau with the emperor order. In this case, Litterateur Biography of the official history is no longer of prominent innovation, and it was just a continuation of the traditional model.The second part of the thesis is the interpretation of the content about Litterateur Biography, including four aspects:literati life, literati image, literary works and literary ideas. Their content subject were recording the literati’s life story, from which each person’s resume, achievements and the relationship between their life and the literary output can be roughly known. And heroes characteristic and image in the Litterateur Biography Can also be reflected from it on the same time,who always have unrecognized talents, or were not a high-ranking officials but arrogant of their talent, or were not a high-ranking officials but arrogant of their talent, or weren’t bother about trifles.Descendants of history repairing often saved full text or fragment of well-known and influential literary in Litterateur Biography.The front exordium and the behind comment and praise were argumentative text, where the historiographer elaborated their literary thought usually, or discuss various nature of questions such as literature, aesthetics and function, or commented on writers, literary imagination and the development of literature reviews. |
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