Zhou Yun's Research

Zhou Yun was a commoner in Jiaxing area of Zhejiang Province in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty.In his early years,he sold rice to make a living,and had a solid family background.Zhou Yun's rice shop upstairs there are "Cai Shan Tang",Zhou Yun reading and writing poetry everyday,so his sample reels called "Cai Shan Tang Collection".Later,the Cai Shan Tang Collection was scattered,in which poems and articles were collected by countrymen and re-classified into "Cai Shan Tang Poetry" and "Cai Shan Tang Heritage".Most of its Ci are lost,and only 34 of them have been collected from Quan Qing Ci(Shun Kang Volume).Zhou Yun's poems,articles and ci all have high literary value and artistic achievements.Zhou Yun was poor in rice industry,and generous enough to save people in the water and fire,leading to more and more poverty in the end,eventually living by giving poetry,farming,collating books,and receiving help from friends.Zhou Yun was active frequently in Shunkang period,and the main activities were in the Yangtze River Delta area of Jiangnan.He also had many times to the north,such as Shanxi,Beijing and other places.Zhou Yun is generous and righteous all his life,and he is sincere when he meets his friends.With its unique personality charm and profound academic background,it attracted a large number of literati and scholars to gather around.There are Mei Li literati who are similar to Zhou Yu's experience,and they are also unwilling to succumb to the Qing Dynasty,and their friendship with them expresses the regret of the death of the country and the feeling of drifting away from their lives.Zhou Yun also had close exchanges and talked to prominent officials of the Qing Dynasty,such as Cao Rong and Wang Sen,but relied more on academic discussion and academic research,which played down the political color and the sense of home and country.Zhou Yun's 918 poems,all of which can be seen in the collection of mountain hall poems,are an important part of his literary works.The poems are extensive in subject matter,rich in content,documentary tour,banquet collection,farewell to people,exhilaration and miscellaneous feelings,landscape and pastoral areas.Chanting objects and so on are all involved.Zhou Yun worshiped the famous scholars of Wei and Jin dynasties,especially liked to imitate Tao Yuanming for his poetry.Zhou Yun integrates literary heart,chivalrous bone and Taoist spirit,merges superb artistic creation techniques,makes his poetry longer than lyricism and infinite meaning,and forms a fresh and natural artistic pursuit and sentence chisel,clear and comely language style.And Zhou poetry has various styles,and the five words are especially victorious.Zhou Yun made great contributions to the revitalization of ci in the early Qing Dynasty."advocating the Southern Song Dynasty and taking elegance as the teacher",is Zhou Yun's main thought of ci,but Zhou did not give up his study of the style of ci of the bold and unrestrained school in the Northern Song Dynasty.From the initial emphasis on ci in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty to respect the Southern Song Dynasty and revere elegance,we can see the change of the literary aesthetic direction of the literati in the Ming Dynasty.Zhou Yun has deep attainments in ci,especially the law of ci,and his academic achievements are quite abundant.Zhou Yun assisted Zhu Yizun in correcting and approving the rhythm of Ci Zong,helped Jiang Jingqi complete the last two volumes of the Yao Hua Collection,independently edited and selected Jin Ci Zong,Ci Wei,and participated in the revision of Gu Jin Ci Hua,and so on.Number of existing words in Zhou Yun Although small,but the quality is very high.The content of the Zhou Ci is rich,mainly includes the leisure travel information words,the cross-tour emotional words,and the chanting words.The words and words are elegant,the structure is exquisite,the emotion is exquisite,the work is fine,and the deep and elegant is the general style of the existing words in the Zhou Ci.Zhou Yun's article is extraordinary,sensitive and working at the same time.All the existing 47 articles are compiled into the "Cai Shan Tang Heritage",in which the narrative works can best reflect Zhou Yun's thought,the quantity is the most,and the content is the most abundant:those who express literary thoughts provide supplementary materials for the elegant purpose and development track of Mei Li's poetry school,and the narrative works are the most abundant in the following aspects:those who express literary thoughts provide supplementary materials for the elegant purpose and development track of Mei Li poetry school;Some of them are not only beautiful in writing,exquisite in conception,but also full of philosophical flavor;some in the biography of characters,both in discussion and narration,the style of history and the color of legend coexist.In the remains of the Cai Shan Tang Heritage,Zhou Yun advocates elegance,adheres to the Confucian view of etiquette,yearns for Fang,pursues a noble view of seclusion,cherishes life,and conforms to the natural destiny.In addition,this paper questions the statement that the birth year of Zhou Yun is 1623,and infers that the birth year of Zhou Yun should be 1622 according to Wang Sen's small biography of Zhou Danggu.As the core figure of Mei Li poetry school and Mei Li ci school,the ideological concept and artistic pursuit contained in his works are very representative among Mei Li literati.It plays an important role in the development of Mei Li literature and the formation of ci school in western Zhejiang.Zhou Yun is also the representative of the literati in cloth and clothing in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.His activity track and psychological course can be regarded as a typical case study of the survivors in the south of the Yangtze River,so it is a very meaningful work to study his works.