The Study On Zhen Dexiu’s Parallel Prose

In the writing of Parallel Prose, Zhen Dexiu was the representative among those writers in the Southern Song Dynasty. This article tries to do research on the Parallel Prose of Zhen Dexiu from four parts. First, in consideration of his experience in taking Cike, the article will analysis his attitude towards Parallel Prose. Second, it will conclude how does Neo-confucianism affect him and his thought of attaching with importance to Words instead of writings and writings conveys Words with the help of his poem. The literature creation of every writer could never be apart from their activities and should be surely influenced by their literature thoughts. Besides, those writers in Song Dynasty have the identities of officials and scholars etc, it is necessary to understand them thoroughly, it will support an abound evidences to interpret those writers’ works thoroughly and deeply.Zhen Dexiu didn’t like the creation of poem but he was good at Parallel Prose. What he composed Zhao and Zhi are graceful and elegant and should be classical among those works. What he composed Biao and Qi was pure and honest and was the reflection of his true felling. What he composed Qingci had large numbers, in order to get blessings and get rid of the tribulation and exposed his heart to gods.This article will do various research on Zhen Dexiu’s Parallel Prose from perspective of the style and it will also date back to the development of very styles. Besides, this article will analysis the content of every chapter with the help of related parallel prose and Zhen Dexiu’s opinion on parallel prose. The key ideas of Zhen Dexiu’s parallel prose were contained in the book of Wu Ne Articles with Different Styles, Wang Yinglin’s Rhetoric Guide and Sun Mei’s Collections of Parallel Prose. The practice of his parallel prose based on his composition theory, just like the noble,elegant and mild riscripts and the delicate article to gods etc. He combined theory and practice tightly.Third, this article will summary the art form of Zhen Dexiu’s Parallel Prose from those points, such as language, events and the features of phrase structure. It will conclude the features of Zhen Dexiu’s Parallel Prose, such as elegant and mild, stable and unhurried, apropos stating, combined modern and ancient elements, the orderly structure and flexible art form. And it will also prove these features with a large number of examples.Finally,the article will use the comparative law to analysis the inheritance of the system of Wang Anshi and the Parallel Prose of Su Shi style and it will find the shining point-the backbone-which contains in Zhen Dexiu’s Parallel Prose. And the article will do research on the Integrity temperament and the simplicity spirit. So that the literature value could be identified.