A Study Of Zoushi Articles In Parallel Style From Qin Dynasties To Northern And Southern Dynasties

Zoushi Articles, belonging to official documents in ancient China, was a generalterm for official submitting memorials to the throne in feudal society and it made up alarge portion for ancient Chinese ascending official documents. Ancient Chinese ZouArticles was derived from pre-Qin dynasty, grew up in Qin-Han dynasties and flourishedin the Wei-Jin Southern and Northern period.This essay chooses parallel prose as the hitting point to study Zou which was thecrowing achievement of the ancient official documents in the six dynasties of Han-Weiand by relying on theory masterpieces such as Wen Xin Diao Long to recognize theantithesissing progress, discuss the antithesissing trend and try to explore the stylisticfeatures and change of Zoushi Articles before Sui Dynasty. This essay has six parts.The first part is the introduction. It briefly introduces the situation, contents, theories,significance, innovation and research methods of this topic.The second part is spotting the difference of Zoushi Articles. Zoushi Articlesincluded Zhang, Biao, Zou, Yi, Shu, Qi and Fengshi before Sui and Tang Dynasties. Thispart aims to summarize the origin and evolution of these seven literary forms and definethe stylistic functions and forms of this topic.The third part is analyzing the elegant writing of Zoushi Articles in the Qin-HanDynasties to realize that it was the beginning of parallel style. And in this period therhyme was used more simply and subtly and poetic rhythm was at the exploratory stage.Zoushi Articles was barely in embryo.In the forth part, according the situation of literary change in Wei-Jin Dynasties weknow that Zoushi Articles in parallel style became mature with the development ofparallel style. However, many works preferred to forms and skills because of politicalpressure, giving the pursuit the forms of aestheticism.The fifth part analyzes Zoushi Articles in parallel style in South Dynasty. Althoughparallel style had its heyday in Qi-Liang Dynasties, Zoushi Articles as the political toolbecame meretricious.The sixth part analyzes Zoushi Articles in parallel style in North Dynasty to realize the articles in this period not only inherited the styles of Han and South Dynasties butalso form its own features.The study of Zoushi Articles in parallel style differs from the general stylisticstudies. It was the product of the ancient Chinese bureaucrat system and even carried theprinciple between the monarch and his ministers and the ritual and musical culture.Therefore, we should have the overall point of view and work hard for exploring andexplaining systematically the stylistic feature, the change of style of writing and theideological value of Zoushi Articles in parallel style.