Ma Changhai’s Poetry Class Theory

Ma Changhai is a famous poet of the Eight Banners of Manchu. The later generations pay close attention to him and classify him into Liaodong Group. Ma is fond of painting and poetry, and also he has plenty of works. His works are scattered and lost. Lei Xi Cao Ji is the only one which includes203poets.The thesis classifies the poets into six categories including the poetry theorizing poetry, travelling poetry, hermit poetry, friendship poems, eulogistic poetry and poems on paintings according to their subject and matter. Each category of poetry is distributed to discuss in six chapters.The first chapter discusses Ma changhai’s poetics and mainly focuses on its inheriting and development to The Thirty Song Poetry written by Yuan Haowen. In terms of inheriting, it discusses from the following aspects, paying attention to utility, advocating natural and emotional ones. In terms of development, it analyzes from the four aspects including putting the old and modern ones in the same place, advocating aesthetic diversity, making comment on poetry from the Buddhist point and attaching importance to knowledge. The second to the sixth chapters discuss practical issues of poetry creation, taking subject matter as standard. The travelling poetry mainly analyzes emotional quality from the aspects of the creation background, description object and emotion connotation. The eulogistic poetry discusses poet’s atheistic orientation which is based on analyzing the two categories and the main content. The hermit poetry analyzes the reclusion value orientation and discusses the deviation between ideality and practice, then further analyzes the reason of the two orientations. The friendship poems observed the poet’s social psychology from the angle of his social relation and cultural personality. Poetry on paintings analyzes creation orientation and present individual consciousness from the point of the two groups, poets of Qing and Ming Dynasty.Ma pursues innovation in poem’s form and content aiming to the reflection of real emotion and unification of theory and practice. All of these are up to the features of Qing Dynasty. Ma Changhai, as one of the representatives who accepts Han people holds important place in the history of Man Han poetry research.