In The Early Qing Dynasty, The Poet Niu Wei Studied

Niu Xiu (1644-1704), early Qing dynasty scholar, was born in Wujiang (Jiangsu Province). His works Gusheng, the literary sketches,and Lin Yetang collection,the poetry anthology are still be in existence. Lin Yetang collection is consist of essays collection, poems collection,rhymed verses and letters collection. His works are mainly poems. Early Qing dynasty scholars evaluated positively his poems, such as Jiang Chenying, Li Yindu, Pan Lei and Kang Naixin. His poems are also extracted into BieCai qing poetry collection written by Shen Deqian,Countries toward the poem realm and hsu shih-chang written by Zhang Yingchang and Late qing dynasty poems collection written by Xu Shichang. Therefore, Niu Xiu and his works are worth to study. This paper will be based on the poetry itself, combined with the contact of intercourse, other types of text data so as to research composition and artistic achievements of his poetiy. Based on the objective study, we can evaluate his position and influence in the history of poetry.This paper will be divided into three chapters.The first chapter is to research the intercourse. According to the change of environment and personal identity, his life can be divided into three stages:Wujiang growth, Beijing rides, and at the officer.During Wujiang period, this paper mainly study the influence of his teachers and friends.During travel in Beijing, He made many friends, a few of them have been presented as " Boxue Hongci". Firstly, it can lay the foundation for the research of his poetics thought by analyze Niu Xiu's intercourse. Secondly, it can see the subtle psychology.The second chapter research the ideological content of poetry. Niu Xiu's poetry creation is guided by his creation thought. On the basis of the poetic thought research, we can study the content of poetryThe third chapter studies the artistic achievement of Niu Xiu's poetry from the artistic style, artistic methods and comparison withe other people three aspects so as to determine the poetic style.Epilogue makes a evaluation which is based on the clear choice for scholars of the qing poetry and the specific evaluation of Niu Xiu.