The Acceptance Of Bai Juyi's Poetry And The History Of Poetics In The Late Ming Dynasty

Different from the general history of poet's subject acceptance,this paper studies Bai Juyi's poetry acceptance not for serving the research of "Bai Juyi's subject",but for the macro study of late Ming poetics.This paper interprets the history of poetics from the perspective of reception history,hoping to provide a supplementary way for the mainstream writing mode of poetics history centered on theoretical category.In the history of the Poetics of Ming and Qing Dynasties,the late Ming Dynasty is an important transition period from the situation that Tang tone was the only one in the middle of Ming Dynasty to the contention between Tang tone and Song tone in Qing Dynasty.The main trend in the Renaissance of Song tone is the popular Song tone represented by Bai Juyi,Su Shi and Lu you.On the one hand,the praise and criticism of Bai's poetry often reflects the attitude of the poetic theorists at that time towards the poetry of Song tone.On the other hand,the criticism among the poetic theorists of various schools often relies on Bai's poetry criticism,and the evolution of some poetic theories has also been realized in the debate on Bai's poetry criticism.This makes it possible for this paper to outline the general outline of the evolution of late Ming poetics with the clue of Bai's poetry acceptance history.According to this idea,the author divides the history of late Ming Dynasty poetics into four parts: the first part is the early Wanli period: the style school's attitude towards Song tone has eased,opening up the atmosphere for the rise of the Gong-an school.The second section is the mid Wanli period: with the prosperity of the Gong-an school,the poetry circle at that time ushered in the first climax period of Song tone poetry acceptance since the mid Ming Dynasty.The third section is from the late Wanli period to the Tianqi period: Although the trend of Song tone's revival has been curbed,people have a deeper understanding of Song tone's poetry with the continuous controversy between the Song tone school and Tang tone school.The fourth part is the period of Chongzhen: the dispute between Tang tone and song tone is becoming more and more intense,and the Song tone school represented by Qian Qianyi also shows the tendency of "taking talent as poetry",which lays the foundation for the prosperity of Song Poetry in Qing Dynasty.