The Study Of Huhai Memoir

Anthology is a special way of the ancient Chinese literary criticism, which hasconstantly association with its social and cultural background, In addition，it is a reflectionof the selector’s poetic theory and criticized interesting. In the period of Qian Long and JiaQing of Dynasty Qing, pattern school, the school of nature and spirit and mechanismschool were active in Parnassus. As the inheritor of Pattern school and Parnassus sovereign,in order to further expand his teacher’s theory, Wang Chang selected Huhai Memoir.Huhai Memoir is a collection of poets who get in contact with Wang Chang and acollection of elegant poems, which is forty six volumes collection of six hundred andfourteen poets, more than three thousand and seven hundred poems. It is largely organizedby Imperial examination ranking, but there are some differences; Apart from sticking to thetheory of pattern school, Wang Chang benefited from different Theories; He put Tangpoetry to the right track, but not exclude Song poetry; Wang Chang attribute nature,knowledge and logic to the principle of artistic aspects referred to gentleness: His theorycan be described as liberal arts width, and a comprehensive expression of different theoriesin Qing Dynasty.There is frequent interaction between Wang Chang and the school of nature and spirit,mechanism school, the Zhe School, and the Xiu Shui School. The second chapter of thearticle to the fifth chapter focus on the sophisticated relationships between Wang Changand other factions’ figures on the Parnassus, which is to explore the cultural circle of WangChang. Based on this, the Thesis further clarifies its style main of pattern school andintegrates essence of the factions theories but different poetic theory orientation.Throughout the entire anthology, Huhai Memoir inherits The Analytic Record ofPoems of the Qing Dynasty, which preserves a large number of poems of poets, biographical data and its creation survey. It concludes many unknown things, the socialand political affairs. All that contributes to reveal prosperous Parnassus of Qian Long andJia Qing’ s periods in the Qing Dynasty. But Wang Chang lays a lot of emphasis on patternschool that leads to a single style of selected poems. Seating, the numbers of selectedpoetries, and so on, are still a pity of Huhai Memoir..Ever since printed, Huhai Memoir has been constantly quoted to judge many poets, orresearch on development course of pattern school. No one can be comparable to it exceptthe Criticism poetry of Sui Yuan in its’ Accurate comment and broad coverage, but theCriticism poetry of Sui Yuan is not as good as the richness of selected Poems and relatedmaterials of Huhai Memoir. So it is still indispensable to study poetry of Qian long and JiaQing’ s periods in Qing Dynasty.