The Research On Qi Song’s Ancient Literature

At the moment of being the climax of the ancient prose and the upsurge to the rejecting of the Buddhism in Northern Song Dynasty, Qi Song with the courage of martyrs and the attitude of a righteous man, turned back the powers of darkness of Buddhism by the ancient prose apologetic, promoted the understanding of the Buddhism doctrine, consequently it accelerated the amalgamation of Buddhism and Confucianists.Qi Song’s ancient prose was composed to protect the Buddhism doctrine, so it gave priority to comment. His comment included three respects:1st amalgamation of Buddhism and Confucianists.,he thought that the Precepts Ten Good Deeds of the Buddhism was interlinked to the Confucianists. The causality spanning the three periods of Confucianists was interlinked to the Five Blessings and Six Exhaustions of 《Hong Fan》of the Confucianists. It is a great filial piety for the Buddhist monks to fast. So the Buddhism and the Confucianists ideology both helped to the humanization of People.2nd it elucidated the Confucianists ideology deeply by amalgamating the《Zhong Yong》《Huang Ji》《Hong Fan》.3rd.by opposing to Han Yu, He concluded that Han Yu—the leader of the ancient literature movement in Middle Tang Dynasty was just a man of letters.At the moment of being the climax of the ancient prose and the upsurge to the rejecting the Buddhism in Northern Song Dynasty, Qi Song Protected the Buddhism with the ancient literature by adopting the tactics ofand he got the victory at the last. So his ancient literature accomplishment was of his special originality and has the praise of "the best poetry and prose in the disciples". Concretely speaking, the art skill of Qi Song’s ancient literature was expressed in four aspects. The first one is possessing the technique of writing of 《Liu Jing》 with succinct style of writing to express deep meaning. The second preferred to use antithetical and parallelism. It had the plentiful style of Han Yu. The third is of the intricacy with many twists and turns and bold and unconstrained characteristic. The fourth is that Qi Song’s ancient literature is of plain and natural and clear and smooth common style.Qi Song made the amalgamation of Buddhism and Confucianists. as the academic support to take arms to the Confucianists, so his theory must have some achievement. It was of amalgamation but recondite and it has its peculiarities, then it can convince other people.With the method of the ancient literature argument. Although his literature is the way to express his viewpoints, it should be fine and ingenious and it is not inferior to the famous expert. Because his literature is aimed to express his viewpoints, so it is resembled to 《 Liu Jing 》.Because it should express the viewpoints clearly, it must be clear and smooth to make people understanding. He was generous and was easy to stare in anger, so his article is like him. It was magnificent. And the need of objection to Han Yu, he researched Han Yu’s article deeply, so his character was stubborn and learned from Han Yu unconsciously. He lived at the prosperous moment of the ancient literature movement in Song Dynasty, so his literature should be infected by the movement. So his literature had the plain, smooth and clear characteristic. Because of the above aspects, it made the style of Qi Song’s ancient literature to be "brief but profound, abundant but sufficient, circuitous but bold and unconstrained,smooth but unimpeded ".It also made it to obtain the status of "the best poetry and prose in the disciples".