| Chen Zilong was a prominent figure who lived in southeast of Ming and Qing dynasty literary world, He was a litterateur, but also a political strategist and hero of multiple identities. Chen Zilong was brilliant, made many achievements in Shi-poem, Ci-poem, prose and other creations, with his literary style for multiple carrier and his text revealed elegant bearing talent, recorded a special political environment of Ming and Qing Dynasty that literati and scholars, politicians and loyalists efforts to national revival and restore the literary atmosphere. At that time and later the people are very respected his personal charm and literary talent. The poetry style of Chen Zilong is vigorous, ups and downs, flowing, lingering, reflecting a quite different style from others. His prose is condensed to a solid deep political courage and a generous emotional as a litterateur. However, academics are tending to focus on the aspects of Chen Zilong’s poetic achievements instead of his prose, and a comprehensive and systemic research of his prose has not yet appeared. Both in subject, content, style or ideology, the prose of Chen Zilong is not only relaxation and powerful, but also compatible with a degree, we can either comprehend the situation of the academic of Ming and Qing Dynasty, but also can see the changes of that social and history, understand the mentality of scholars and the changes in literature through researching his prose.The article is dividied into 10 parts. In the introduction part, comprehensive overview of the situation of Chen Zilong’s prose, summarize the significance and value of researching his prose.Chapter I sort the editions status of all time of Chen Zilong’s prose outin a philology angle. Explore the differences between the editions of the process they were printed and published.Chapter II began to have a classification research about the prose of Chen Zilong. In his prose, the prefaces and postscripts have a greater proportion, its aboutl/3. In order to have a detailed analysis of his prefaces and postscripts, respectively discuss the prose of Chen Zilong on the content in horizontal and on the classification in vertical. The former include to analysis of the political content, literature content and self-cultivation content and so on. The latter have a detailed analysis of the preface and postscript, classification described the prefaces and postscripts of collected works, reward and birth of the old.Chapter III focus on the letters he had written, and try to explore the idea of literature, politics from those letters. Compared with his prefaces and postscripts, despite a smaller number of Chen Zilong’s letters, they contain a wealth of ideological content, it could be benefited from the special stylistic of letters, Litterateur can express their emotion with greater freedom, it includes a wide range of content in military strategy, political ideology, genius selection, and literary thought and so on. In addition, the chapter also interpret the article from the writing techniques of Chen Zilong’s letters, concluded that these are the most innovative place reflect in his letters by borrowing the pen of ancient writers and combining the letters he had written, simultaneously, writing the letters to dead people with funeral oration. At the same time, his writing techniques are melancholy, emotion is deeply as well.Chapter Ⅳ including two kinds literature style of Chen Zilong’s prose including Chen Zilong’s literary style of Ce and literary style of Lun, two kinds of stylistic analysis in this paper. Literary style of Ce focus on the country political life of the internal problems, including economic resource configuration, military training, improving the military defense system and making the monarch wise and political majestically etc. On the writing characteristics, Chen Zilong used the methods of ancient written compare with modern writing methods and the large number of using rhetorical question sentence writing style in the Ce genre so that to write a article both concise and profound. The second part is the theory genre, it respectively based on military books, confucian classics and influential historical figures and significant historical events to the parsing of the political and military perspective, and it divided into theory of military, theory of confucian classics, theory of historical, such as several plates. It reflects his literary thought that "The ancient things be used in now ", at the same time, it also reflects his literary ideal that use it to save the world.Chapter V focus on discussing the article of Chen Zilong’s Ji. The article of his JI is not so much, but it reflects a unique writing perspective. His more than ten articles of Ji, together with other types of articles, does not include national politics, any travel landscape, construction engineering, trivial affairs are all reflect Chen Zilong’s thinking about the world from another angle. At the same time, I will try to explore Chen Zilong’s field of writing and his efforts in writing from the narrative which is relatively far away from the government affairs.Chapter VI research Chen Zilong’s history article<theory of history>separately. Analyze the historical origin of history article, analyze and summarize Chen Zilong’s main content of "theory of history", To discover his historical perspective and political feelings in the process of commenting on historical things.Chapter Ⅶ focusing on analysis Chen Zilong’s military prose<Bing Yuan Zou Yi>, <Bing Yuan Zou Yi>collected the Zou Shu, which are he wrote to the emperor when he served as a military affairs officer during Chong Zhen seventeen years. Its can maximum reflect scholars’ attitude of participating political in a special political environment, we can also see the endangered politics of the south Ming Dynasty from it. Chen Zilong try to explore a way to restore the vitality of the Ming dynasty at the critical moment, His deep wisdom, big courage, long term view are condensated in<Bing Yuan Zou Yi>. In this part, I will try to research his Zou Shu, which are More than thirty, At the same time, comprehensive understanding the political ideal it contains. Zou Yi is belongs to official document, the writing method of His Zou Yi are completely different from the traditional writing method, his Zou Yi written was brief and profound. In addition, it also has a unique art.In the chapter Ⅷ is a summary of Chen Zilong’s prose thoughts. Respectively to analysis the guidelines he had abided from the "tao" and "retro" in the process of literature ideological trend and literature practice. On the one hand, discovered his article theory from his literary reviews; On the other hand, from the content of his prose and the characteristics of his prose creation to explore his literature meaning of restoring ancient ways.Chapter Ⅸ focuses on the inheritance and far-reaching influence of Chen Zilong’s prose. This chapter is divided into three parts, the first part discuss Chen Zilong’s prose inheritance the prose of predecessors; The second part Chen Zilong’s prose thoughts are discussed and it had what kind of influence on parallel prose revival in Qing dynasty; In addition, this chapter also discusses the influence of Chen Zilong’s prose creation activities on Shanghai area and east Zhejiang.Epilogue part, summarize the evaluation that Ming and Qing dynasty literary world had made for Chen Zilong and the loyalty to the state’s personality he owned which have a positive influence to literary word. |
