A Study Of Sima Xiangru’s Personality And Literary Style

Sima Xiangru is a famous scholar in the Western Han Dynasty and the representative writer of Han Da Fu.His works Zixu Fu and Shanglin Fu represent the highest achievement of Han Da Fu.This paper focuses on Sima Xiangru’s complex personality and his literary style and contribution under the influence of his personality through close reading and comparative study,trying to restore his real personality and objectively evaluate his literary works.The first part discusses Sima Xiangru’s personality,the second part discusses his literary creation style under the influence of Sima Xiangru’s personality,and the third part discusses Sima Xiangru’s literary contribution.In the monographs and papers on Sima Xiangru,the previous description of Sima Xiangru is limited to a simple retelling of his historical biography,and there is no in-depth study of Sima Xiangru’s inner world.For example,in the history of Chinese literature written by you Guoen,Yuan Xingkai and others,Sima Xiangru’s life is simply discussed,but there is no profound anatomy of him.For example,yuan Xingpei only briefly described Sima Xiangru’s life story,mainly from an objective point of view to simply list his events,not involving his personality or psychological elements.Through the analysis of Sima Xiangru’s inner world,this paper discusses his inner personality and literary style under the influence of his personality from the complicated materials.In the aspect of Sima Xiangru’s personality traits,this paper holds that Sima Xiangru is a literary genius in the literary age,a hermit in the imperial court with a cold face and a warm heart,and a chivalrous man who admires the sages.From Sima Xiangru’s early learning experience and admiration and learning for Lin Xiangru’s wisdom,bravery and gallantry,it shows a kind of intellectual and gallantry characteristics.Because Sima Xiangru lived in the age of Emperor Wu,which was an era of advocating literature,he turned to literary creation and gave full play to his literary genius.In addition,Sima Xiangru also had a strong political ambition,but because of the complex political environment and Emperor Wu’s position as a writer,Sima Xiangru hid his political characteristics in order to avoid disaster,showing a kind of appearance that he was not keen on politics,and became a hermit with a cold heart.Through the hidden purport of his Fengchan book,we can see that Sima Xiangru is not a pure intellectual,he is a politician with great ambition.In the aspect of Sima Xiangru’s literary style,this paper summarizes Sima Xiangru’s literary style as magnificent and graceful.On the one hand,this paper generalizes Sima Xiangru’s Fu as a kind of entertainment literature with gorgeous writing style.It is generally believed that it only reflects the extravagant life of emperors,and few people mention the entertainment function of Han Fu.This paper summarizes the reading group and description object of Han Fu as entertainment literature,and reveals that the reading group is emperors and princes,and the description object is the rich products and hunting scenes of the Han Dynasty.On the other hand,this paper reinterprets the style of "persuading hundreds and satirizing one" of Sima Xiangru’s Han Fu,and holds that the satirical intention of Sima Xiangru’s works is very clear,which is the main purpose of his works,and the magnificent scenery description of his articles is only a form to achieve the satirical effect.In terms of the relationship between personality traits and literary style,this paper examines the relationship between Sima Xiangru’s personality traits and literary style as a whole,and discusses the relationship between Sima Xiangru’s personality traits and literary style.Because of Sima Xiangru’s chivalrous temperament,his literary style is magnificent and magnificent;Because he is a "literary genius in the era of advocating literature" and has a very high literary talent,his works show the characteristics of "entertainment literature with gorgeous writing style";Because he is a "hermit with cold face and hot heart",he has a contradictory political psychology,so his works show a kind of "tortuous expression of political demands" and "implicit and euphemistic satire art".In a word,through the study of Sima Xiangru’s life background,personality traits and literary style,this paper makes a specific analysis of Sima Xiangru and his works.Considering all kinds of factors,Sima Xiangru’s creation marks the basic maturity of Han Dafu creation and represents the highest achievement of Han Dafu.On the one hand,it depicts the magnificent beauty of the prosperous age of Han Dynasty,On the other hand,it presents a magnificent and graceful literary style.