Yingtianfu Literature In The Northern Song Dynasty

Yingtianfu is the southern capital of the Northern Song Dynasty(It is also known as the southern capital)and It is also one of the four capitals of the Northern Song Dynasty.It plays an important role in politics,economy and military affairs.At the same time,literature also shows a prosperous situation.This paper intends to make an in-depth study of the literary and cultural phenomena in the area under the jurisdiction of Yingtianfu in the Northern Song Dynasty,and to study the literary form,significance and value of Yingtianfu as one of the subsidiary capitals,so as to contribute to the study of regional literature and culture in the Song Dynasty.The introduction of this paper mainly introduces the geographical evolution of Yingtianfu,defines the concept of "Yingtianfu literature",the research status of Yingtianfu literature in the Northern Song Dynasty,the research methods adopted for this topic,and the research significance and value of this topic.The main body is divided into six chapters.The first chapter is the study of the five elders in Suiyang-Du Yan,Wang Huan,Bi Shichang,Zhu Guan,Feng Ping.After retiring,The five elders all came to Suiyang to provide for the aged.They often got together to drink wine and compose poems and they hold "five old association",because of the five people were longevous and had a high virtue and a glorious name,they made a great sensation in the Northern Song Dynasty,many literati wrote poems for them.The five old people and their meeting became a great event in Suiyang,It had a far-reaching impact on both then and later generations and it occupied an important position in local literature.The second chapter,the mutual influence between Fan Zhongyan and Yingtianfu College.Fan Zhongyan once studied in Yingtianfu college,and after he passed the imperial examinations,Yingtianfu college accomplished Fan Zhongyan;Then Fan Zhongyan teached in the college for some time,he greatly promoted the development of the college.Yingtianfu college and Fan Zhongyan are mutual achieved.Two times in Yingtianfu,Fan Zhongyan created some poems,which can be used to observe his emotion,friendship and political strategy.Fan Zhongyan waslearn to surname Qi in Suiyang and then he cultivated Sun Fu and Zhang Fangping and so on,Fan Zhongyan and his students make great contributions to the rise of Song learning and also inspire the style of scholars in the Northern Song Dynasty.The third chapter,Yingtianfu literature family research.Many famous literary families appeared in Yingtianfu,the descendants of this family were excellent,either the father and son brothers in the family were pass an imperial examination,or members of the family had some achievements in culture.This chapter mainly takes Qi Tongwen family and Wang Li family as the entry point to understand their cultural and literary achievements,and explore the reasons for the emergence of literary families in the Suiyang and explore their contributions to the Northern Song literature.The forth chapter research native literati in Yingtianfu represented by Zhang Fangping and Shi Yannian,they were all important literati in the literary field of Qingli.Through the study of their poems and articles and friends,their roles in the literary field and their contributions to the literature in the Northern Song Dynasty are explored.The fifth chapter is about the study of official literati in Yingtianfu.As an accompanying capital,there were many literary masters who comes here to be officials,represented by Yan Shu,Shi Jie,Ouyang Xiu,Su Song,Su Zhe,etc.Through the investigation of their literary creation and literary activities,it is found that official literati were quite active during this period,left many excellent poems and articles.The sixth Chapter mainly study the regional cultural landscape of Yingtianfu.In the long historical evolution,Yingtianfu has left many historic sites worth remembering.The cultural landscape before the Northern Song Dynasty mainly includes the hometown of Zhuangzi,Liangyuan and Double temple.In the Song Dynasty.Zhuangzi's spirit also had a great influence on the spiritual character of scholar-officials in Song Dynasty,When literati came to their ancestral home,they may wrote poems in memory of the sages.In the Western Han Dynasty,Liu Wu,king of Liang,built a large-scale garden,which called Liangyuan,many famous literary scholars gathered in Liangyuan to form a well-behaved "Liangyuan literati group".This event had a profound influence on later generations of literati.When literati came to the Historic site of Liangyuan,they often had strong felling and formed a "Liangyuan complex".During the An-Shi rebellion,Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan,two guards of Suiyang,pledged their lives to defend the city and sacrificed their lives for the country in order to protect the Tang Dynasty.The spirit of loyalty of Zhang Xun and others was widely accepted in Song Dynasty.The conclusion part summarizes the development trend of Yingtianfu literature,which is generally the same as the Northern Song literature,but slightly different.Yingtianfu literature is flourish in the early and middle period of the Northern Song Dynasty,later it's development is relatively weak.As one of the subsidiary capitals,it presents a kind of sub-center literary ecology.Yingtianfu literature takes an active part in the literary construction of the Northern Song Dynasty.