A Study On Feng Weimin’s Poetry

The Feng family of Linqu,Shandong province is a respectable family during Ming and Qing dynasty.Feng Weimin is a member of the Feng family of Linqu.He has the outstanding contributions in the literature creation and compiling local Chronicles.Among them,Sanqu,Zaju,poetry and article are the key of the Feng Weimin’s literary creation.Although he is famous for Sanqu,he also has the content variety of poetry writing.His poetry writing is mainly after Jiajing and Longqing.About versions of Feng Weimin’s poetry,they are Jiajing 45 years block-printed edition,the continuation books of Siku Quanshu photo-offset copy,the version poems of the great Ming from Ming’s Yu Xian,the version of Shi Men Ji from Ming’s Kang Piyang,the version of the complete works of Feng Weimin from Xie Boyang.At present,academia’s research about Feng Weimin mainly focuses on Sanqu and Zaju,but the study of Feng Weimin’s poems is relatively weak.The study of Feng Weimin’s poetry is based on analyzing the topic contents and the artistic characteristics of Feng Weimin’s poetry,meanwhile extracts Feng Weimin’s poetic theory.1.The topic contents of Feng Weimin’s poetry mainly contain scenery andtraveling poems,complimentary copy and gathering poems,sighing for reality andpitying farmers poems,expressing something and object-ode poems,aspiration poems,history poems and a small number of poems about military and folk song.The scenery and traveling poems stress the inner purity of Feng Weimin,the yearning for exquisite feelings,the perception of philosophical thoughts.The complimentary copy and gathering poems embody the real emotional communication between Feng Weimin and his friends,the optimistic or depressed thinking about life.The sighing for reality and pitying farmers poems are the representative work of concerning about the reality.They include the mixed feelings from the nature can affect people’s life,the sympathy with people’s boundless grief from the harsh government.The expressing something and object-ode poems often do a poetical development by association with things,and chant object first,express emotion second.At the same time,chanting object is romantic and expressing the emotion is overwhelming.In addition,the topiccontents of Feng Weimin’s poetry also have the aspiration poems centering on expressing poet’s emotion,the history poems using the past to satirize the present,the military poems with high emotion,and the folk songs showing delightful.These topic contents make Feng Weimin’s poetry rich and colorful.2.The artistic characteristics of Feng Weimin’s poetry contain the writing style that is elegant,bold and flowing.Moreover,Feng Weimin’s poetry has the creation ideas,which are“going for ancient poetry”“enjoying special poem”.He likes pursuing the ancient poetry of famous poets in Han,Wei,Tang,Song,and he also likes creating novelty in word selection and finding a view.3.Feng Weimin’s poetic theory contains two aspects:expressing character in poetics,following Confucianism in poetics.The “expressing character” is embodied in the living free of expressing feelings,the fantastic and resounding style,the true and alive emotion.The “following Confucianism”reflects in the inheritance of Feng Weimin’s family learning,and also has Feng Weimin’s explanation and development about Confucianism.