The Study About Informal Essay On Reading Du Fu’s Poetry Of Chen Xu In Qing Dynasty

Chen Xu is a representative figure in the study of Du Fu’s poetry of Chen family in Haining,Zhejiang Province in Qing Dynasty and he has made great achievements in the study of Du Fu’s poetics.His personal poetry works Informal Essay on Reading Du Fu’s Poetry and hand annotations about Notes on Du Fu’s Poems are both important materials for the study of Du Fu’s poetics and both have important value and significance.This paper takes Chen Xu’s Informal Essay on Reading Du Fu’s Poetry as the main research object and there are four chapters except the introduction and the conclusion.The first chapter investigates and sorts out Chen Xu’s life and family background and the tradition of Du Fu’s poetics in Chen family in Haining.The support of Chen’s wealthy family and the edification of his good family custom were of great benefit to the growth of Chen Xu and the tradition of studying Du Fu’s poetry in family also had an important influence on Chen Xu’s love and study of Du’s poems.On the one hand,Chen Xu’s study of Du Fu’s poetry has the commonness of his family’s study of Du Fu’s poetry,Chen Xu attaches importance to the interpretation of poetry and the elucidation of poetic method,and opposes the inflexible appending and misinterpreting of Du’s poems by annotators.On the one hand,Chen Xu’s study on Du Fu’s poems also shows distinct personal characteristics.He is good at proving poetry with poetry,and can read widely the words of other writers and express his opinions independently on the basis of their suggestions to discuss the mistakes of others.The second chapter analyses the features of annotation about Du Fu’s poetry in Informal Essay on Reading Du Fu’s Poetry.On the one hand,from the perspective of compiling motivation,Chen Xu compiled Informal Essay on Reading Du Fu’s Poetry with the purpose of "picking faults and expressing his own opinions",which is on the basis of extensive reference to other annotators;On the other hand,in term of stylistic rules and layout,Chen Xu adopted the unique style-----" informal essay" in Informal Essay on Reading Du Fu’s Poetry,which makes the form flexible and content rich.In addition,the ways of annotating and explaining Du Fu’s poetry in Informal Essay on Reading Du Fu’s Poetry also have the characteristics of diversity,which mainly adopts three main methods: taking poetry as evidence,taking reason as evidence,and taking historical events as evidence.The third chapter sorts out and explores the content of Informal Essay on Reading Du Fu’s Poetry.Chen Xu’s analysis and evaluation about Du Fu’s poems in Informal Essay on Reading Du Fu’s Poetry are mainly carried out from the following three aspects.The first is to explain the poetic meaning of Du Fu’s poems,especially focusing on the overall grasp of the purpose of Du Fu’s poems,as well as the detailed analysis of specific words and sentences.The second is to invent the method of Du Fu’s poems,which emphasized the characteristics of the perfect composition and the integration of the spirit and reason of Du Fu’s poems,and paid special attention to the summary of the method of Du Fu’s poems;The third is to point out problems that most people have when read and evaluate Du Fu’s poems and put forward his own views on how to read and annotate Du Fu’s poems.The fourth chapter investigates the relationship between Informal Essay on Reading Du Fu’s Poetry and Chen Xu’s hand annotations about Notes on Du Fu’s Poems.The two books are the most important achievements of the study of Chen Xu’s study about Du Fu’s poems.Chen Xu’s hand annotations about Notes on Du Fu’s Poems has a great influence on Informal Essay on Reading Du Fu’s Poetry in the way and content of criticism,and a certain number of Du Fu’s poems selected and commented by the two books are the same,there are both corresponding overlaps and complements In the annotation content.Referring to the two books,Chen Xu’s views on Du Fu’s poetry and his characteristics of studying Du Fu’s poems can be more clearly and completely presented.