| Poetry of the middle-late Southern Song Dynasty,Jiang Hu poetry school and Neoconfucianism poetry school were prevalent,and at the same time,a group of officialdom,scholars and literati were active.These scholar-official poets who were direct participants in state affairs formed a sharp contrast with the roaming scholar poets of the Jiang Hu poetry school in their identity,which had a large group,many poems and different styles of poetry.Du fan(1182-1245)was a typical scholar-official poet in the middle and late period of the southern song dynasty,and He was a wise minister of the southern song dynasty,a neoconfucianist and a poet.In his lifetime,Du fan wrote many poems,including five volumes recorded in "Song History",but many of them were lost,leaving 287 poems.Du Fan ’s poems can be subdivided into friendship poems,lyric poems,travel poems and eulogistic poems,among which friendship poems include singing,sending,farewell and mourning.Du Fan ’s friendship poems mostly involve Zhejiang literati;Du Fan ’s friendship is closely related to some hermits and high priests with wind festivals,and he sings more poetry with them.Du Fan sincerely praises and praises their living conditions.The contents of Du Fan’s friendship poems include his obsession with learning to write poems,his lament about the difficulties of the world,and his yearning for retire and seclusion.Du Fan’s travel poems are divided into Yan Dang travel poems and official travel poems;In the history of chant Yan Dang mountain poetry Du Fan was the first person who divided "Long Qiu " poems into "Big Long Qiu " and "Small Long Qiu ",which "small Long Qiu " and " Big Long Qiu " were be named.Du Fan’s official poems recorded the change of his state of mind when he was an official.From the beginning,he was heroic and open-minded,to the people and the country without hesitation,and finally he wanted to return to the field because of his helplessness to the disputes of rights in the imperial court,and he did not want to enter the official field again;lyric poetry mainly expresses the thoughts of fetter and life;eulogistic poetry more show its pursuit of elegant and interesting meaning,the performance of noble sentiment,not flow secular.Du Fan advocates a poetic view that emphasizes both practicality and beauty.Emphasizing the practicality of poetry is the demonstration of Du Fan’s "emphasis on reality" in the literary field;Du Fan also pays attention to the beauty of poetry art,thinking that if the content of poetry Combined with good art forms and language,it will not be buried.In the middle and late period of the Southern Song Dynasty,poets complained about Mei Yaochen,but Du Fan argued that Mei Yaochen should be regarded as the chief poet in writing poems.Du Fan’s poetic style is simple and heavy,paying attention to the rise and fall of the country and citing the ancients to criticize the bad social atmosphere.Du Fan’s ancient-style poems mostly used Confucianism into poetry to explore the way of moral cultivation of NeoConfucianists.Du Fan emphasized Mei Yaochen in poetics and studied Tao Yuanming and Lin Bu in poetry creation.The style of poetry presents a calm and distant side in the plain. |