A Study Of Yelü Chucai’s Prose

Yelü Chucai was prominent minority politicians, scholars and his literary achievements were high.Yelü Chucai’s poems has been have long attention, but his prose as well as westbound travels the XiYouLu has been lack of concern.This paper comprehensive analysis and combs the prose and travel books, intends to alter the existing prose and travel research and compare his prose and poetry, from the contrast appears in the author’s creative features and different styles of writing features, in order to fully understand the Yelü Chucai’s literary writing style.Introduction of Yelü Chucai’s research to sort out, so as to ensure the research achievements and shortcomings, and determine the significance of this study and research methods. The first chapter summary of Yelü Chucai’s life, friends, thoughts,prepared for further study. Chapter II focuses on the literary thought.Yelü Chucai pay attention to the social function of literature.While he was influenced by Buddhism,Taoism thought and influence of Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, advocating free and easy, natural circulation, new valiant style;Yelü Chucai advocate Literature style in Han, Wei, Tang dynasty also praised quaint;Meanwhile, under the influence of temperament of the northern ethnic groups, both his literary novel, valiant, natural,smooth, beautiful, but not magnificent style. Chapter three of Yelü Chucai’s prose read carefully on the basis of his thought to do a comprehensive analysis of the prose.First,Yelü Chucai’s prose has a strong sense of history and memoir of spirit with high cultural value;Second,Yelü Chucai’s prose has a positive spirit and a strong criticism of the reform;Third, Yelü Chucai’s article revealing his real life disappointments and contradictions between seclusion and Official;Fourth, Yelü chucai depicting the motherland and full of affection; Fifth,Yelü Chucai’s literary expression of his life’s ambition;Finally,In prose, the author criticizes Bran Zen and Neo-Confucianism,carry forward the Zen. The fourth chapter analyses the artistic characteristic of Yelv Chucai’s prose.Yelü Chucai’s prose was emotionally charged, easy accessibility,language fluency, humor, funny, trenchant writing style, characteristic of good argument and methods are diverse. The fifth chapter Study on the XiYouLu, explore the ideological content and artistic style.Content is mainly on account of the westward through, praising the western regions landscape favors;Volumes are primarily expressed aspirations in life, and criticism of QuanZhen.The artistic features of the XiYouLu is plain simple, natural and smooth writing style, emotionallycharged, surging bubble, not lack of simple and elegant.The paper sorted the westbound traffic travels through the ages, so we can see the XiYouLu is a bridging role in ancient westward travels and it was westbound of Yelü Chucai’s poems, also has important historical value.In the sixth chapter,author comparative Yelü Chucai’s poems and prose, Points out their characteristics and style, Understanding Yelü Chucai’s literary creation panorama.Epilogue summarizes the Yelü Chucai’s status and influence in the history of literature.