Research About Zhao Yi's Argumentative Poems

Zhao Yi is a famous poet and poet theorist in the Qing Dynasty.In poetry creation,he and Yuan Mei,Jiang Shiquan named "Three great poets in Qianlong " or "Three great poets in Jiangyou".In the poetic theory,as an important member of the Xingling School,he is known as the "Three great poets of Xingling School' with Yuan Mei,Zhang Wentao.In addition,Zhao Yi,Wang Mingsheng and Qian Daxin are the three major historians in Qianlong Dynasty.Enjoy discussing is a major feature of Zhao Yi's poems,and the poems about discussing account for a considerable proportion.It has begun to take shape in ancient poetry that discussion was in poems,there were many poems involved the discussion from Shijing to the Tang poetry.When Poets in Song Dynasty was in the process of the exploration and development of different ways of Tang poetry,they vigorously put discussion into poetry,that's a major feature which made Song poems different from the Tang poems.But Yan Yu in the Southern Song Dynasty criticized "to talk in a poem",which led to debate whether the discussion can be into poetry.More and more poets of Qing Dynasty approve “to talk in a poem” Zhao Yi contended that talking about poems can't only value one dynasty,so he wrote a lot of argumentative poetry.Zhao Yi retained a large number of poetry,involving almost all kinds of subjects and genres,he could express his discussion clearly or implicitly.His argumentative poetry mainly included as following aspects: First,He discussed his poetry theory in the form of poetry,study the questions of poetry and evaluated the poems of the previous dynasty and the poems of the same period.Second,the philosophical poems.The poems about discussing truth inherit the tradition of poems of the Song Dynasty,and express the thinking of the world,discuss the value of life,even obtain knowledge and study the reason of everything.Third,History-Nostalgia Poems.From the historical perspective,his poems about eulogizing history and meditating on the past open the appearance of the event and reveal the essence,which is very profound.Fourth,Zhao Yi's argumentative poetry focusing on social livelihood write down his thinking about the people of the country with a deep strokes.Zhao Yi discussed poems distinctively,good at using the examples,metaphor,induction,rhetoric question etc.to discuss,humorous and interesting,in addition,it forms its unique mode of discussion.Zhao Yi created a large number discussed poems,which influenced by the impact of many factors: First of all,he often associated with great literati,from whom to absorb nutrients,Xuan Yan poems of WeiJin dynasty,Tao Yuanming,Du Fu,Bai Juyi,Su Shi,Lu You's poems have an impact on him.Secondly,the atmosphere of the poem world in the period of the Qianlong and Jiaqing also had some influence on the creation of Zhao Yi's poems.Thirdly,the poetic view of Zhao Yi's valuation of spirit,talent and re-examination is also an important reason for his large number of poems.Fourthly,Zhao Yi is not only a poet,but also a historian,and his historical thoughts have had a tremendous impact on the creation of his poems."Scholars poems" is the biggest characteristic of poems in Qing Dynasty,and Zhao Yi's discussed poems are the typical example of Scholars poems.Study the discussed poems of Zhao Yi,not only we can understand Zhao Yi and his poems preferably,but also it can be as a meaningful case of study the Scholars Poems of Qing Dynasty.