On He Zhuo’s Criticism Of Poetry

He Zhuo’s literary criticism has more significance in the history of literature andliterary criticism, which was often studied by aftertime scholars. And these studiesfocused on textual criticism, Wenxuan and so on. The contents of He Zhuo’scriticism of poetry were rich, but the fruits of the studies are rare. The existingresearch tends to grasp from a macro perspective which was not specific enough.The paper Starts from a deep and fine perspective to study He Zhuo’s poetrycriticism. Observing his criticism of the Book of Songs and Wenxuan, it explains thecharacteristics, method and poetic thought of He Zhuo’s poetry criticism, andevaluates He Zhuo’s contribution to poetry study and his far-reaching impact onpoetry criticism.This paper consists of four parts:Chapter one introduces the criticism theory on the Book of Songs. The authorexplains He Zhuo’s reviews on the Book of Songs from the following aspects: thecharacteristics of his comments on it and "Liuyi" and "zhengbian" of it. The authorconsiders that He Zhuo mainly took several methods to evaluate the Book of Songs,such as criticizing it by ceremony, criticizing poetry by poetry, etc., which reflectsthe attitude of combining the essence of Han dynasty and Song dynasty. In addition,He Zhuo also involved the criticism of some concrete problems and he thought"Liuyi" was the synonymy of "Liushi" and researched "fubixin" and "songbian",which showed that he mastered deep knowledge in the Book of Songs.Chapter two discusses He Zhou’s criticism on Poetry of Wenxuan. He Zhou’scriticism on Poetry of Wenxuan expanded from two aspects, namely, the origin anddifferentiation. The thesis researches origin and development of seven-character-linefolk songs, the themes of wuyan verses and the poets, etc. and studies He Zhuo’scriticism theory in detail by studying Cao Zhi, Ruan Ji, Pan Yew and Lu Ji, XieLingyun and some other poets. He Zhuo’s criticism on Poetry of Wenxuan paid equalattention to both content and form and had a sense of differentiation, which has afar-reaching influence on the development of literary selections in later generations.Chapter three talks about the criticism theory on the poetries of Tang and SongDynasty. He Zhuo’s poetry criticism on poetries of Tang contained a lot of contents.Just Yimen Dushuji involved the criticism on the workings of Han Yu, Du Fu, Li Shangyin, etc. However, as for poetry criticism of the poetries in Song, it was less.For example, in Yimen Dushuji, there was only one volume that talked about thepoetries of Zeng Gong. The author takes the poetries of Du Fu and Zeng Gong as thestudy of He Zhuo’s poetry criticism in Tang and Song. The thesis talks about theorigin and development, the characteristics, some other problems about the poetriesof Du Fu and evaluates He Zhuo’s poetry criticism. Poetry criticism on Zeng Gong’spoetry focuses on two main aspects, namely, the origin and development,achievements.The last part mainly interprets the features of He Zhuo’s criticism of poetryfrom critical method of discussing the nature and world, pursuing the gist of poetry,explaining his gentle and honest ideas and objective critical attitude. It analyses theloss and value of He Zhuo’s criticism of poetry, moreover, summarizing the status ofhis criticism of poetry in literature position.Therefore, it is clear that He Zhuo’s criticism of poetry is not only a history ofpoetry, but also one work concerning the creation of poetry. It played a veryimportant role in the history of Chinese Literary Criticism.