The Spread And Acceptance Of Zhuxi’s "Ode To Boating In Wuyi"

“Ode to Boating in Wuyi” is a famous piece in the philosopher Zhu Xi’s landscape poems.Its profound and meaningful philosophical meaning artistic,harmonious,gentle and flowing rhythm,and conception of feeling and setting happily blended have been appreciated and favored by everybody.Later generations regarded it as a philosophical text to interpret Zhu Xi’s philosophy for a time,which hastened the birth of a large number of imitation works.Since the Song Dynasty,Zhu Xi’s disciples and friends have made a lot of imitations.Although their artistic merit is not high in general,they have shown the trend of double interpretation from the perspective of landscape poems and waters and didactic poems.People in the Yuan Dynasty emphasized that mountains and waters should not be the philosophical symbol of moral examination and self-discipline of Confucian moralists.It is advocated to weaken the meaning of philosophy and the bookishness of Confucian moralists in the inheritance of “Ode to Boating in Wuyi”,and focus on the natural mountains and waters and profound cultural connotation.Chen Pu who lived from Song to Yuan Dynasty proposed that the ode “Ode to Boating in Wuyi”was a pure "order of studying Zhu Xi’s philosophy",and took it as a guide of way to interpret Zhu Xi’s philosophy,which had a profound impact on the later generations.Especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and South Korea,as a classic text,its status is stable,and its acceptance field,scope and depth are deepened to varying degrees.Imitation works are often accompanied by the worship of Zhu Xi when they explain the philosophy and reside rational knowledge.“Ode to Boating in Wuyi” has always been attached great importance to by litterateurs and has been selected into various anthologies.It had been circulated to Korea at the beginning of its publication,continuing its vigorous vitality as a classic text,and formed a unique “cultural image of Jiuqu”.Not only in poetic style,“ Ode to Boating in Wuyi ” was also spread across style,and widely accepted in the literature,such Chinese ancient prose,fu poetry,ci poetry,novels and so on,forming the discourse system of "sea changing into mulberry field"(means things have changed a lot)and "foam storm lantern" extracted from the original poem and run through its process of spread and acceptance.Moreover,it went beyond the scope of "text" and spread across fields by means of music,calligraphy,drama,stonecutting,etc.Generally speaking,the process of spread and acceptance of “Ode to Boating in Wuyi”is dynamic and coherent,reflecting its procedural,epochal,and variability character as a classic work,and the changes of aesthetic mindset and artistic values of societies in different times.