Research Of Zhou Zizhi’s Proses

Zhou Zizhi is a productive writer who lived between Northern and Southern Song Dynasty. However, he hasn’t been valued by the researchers adequately. His proses have a variety of forms, richer contents, unique style and rich connotation of the times, which are the bottom scholars’ s profound thinking towards the political history and social life issue and reflect the social and political life between Northern and Southern Song Dynasty. They truly reproduce the underlying intellectual life and experience and reflect the author’s creative personality.Zhou Zizhi’s proses mainly cover politics, literature and personality spirit. They reflect his strongly love to people, his strategy of running a country and the ponder how to be the emperor and how to be an official. He is looking forward to the harmonious relationship of emperor, minister and people, he hopes they can promote what is beneficial and abolish what is harmful and save the weakness together, which have great era significance. Zhou Zizhi’s literary concept is the same as Su Shi’s followers.On the understanding of the key staging of literary history and the literature evaluation, Zhou Zizhi follows Su Shi’s footsteps, praises highly Zhang Lei and learns from Li Zhiyi etc. His mature knowledge grows out of Yuanyou period. The idea of “the convergence of three religions” also exists in his proses. Furthermore, Zhou Zizhi also dares to question and criticize. He likes to do things on his own way and has exquisite tastes, which reflects the typical personality of the spirit of intellectuals. Through specific article studies, we can review the "be old and shameless" conclusion and give Zhou Zizhi a more objective and accurate evaluation.Zhou Zizhi’s prose style inherits Ou Yangxiu and Su Shi. It has both the characteristics of common nature from the song dynasty’s article and its own unique artistic charm. He is good at using example comparison method to expound the ideological content of dialectical reason and form the expression of the inner straight and outer circumbendibus; His articles have a compact structure, the internal argument are rigorous and diverse, the shape of the external sentences are either prarallel or dispersing, differ in length, and it’s also various and flexible; The language style of his prose is unique, whose style is both simple, natural and magnificent, glorious. They are the natural language of the author’s true feelings.All in all, Zhou Zizhi’s prose inherits Yuanyou heritage, it also opens “the prime period of the Southern Song Dynasty”. His prose is unique among the article of Song Dynasty, it stands apart by itself, it also has an important status and great meanings.