A Study On Cheng Gongsui

Cheng Gongsui is an important representative in the literary world during the Wei and Jin Dynasties.He has a wide range of classics and created many famous works,which have a certain influence.At present,the academic research on Cheng Gongsui is relatively weak,and there is no systematic research.Therefore,taking Cheng Gongsui as the research object,this thesis attempts to make a more comprehensive and holistic study of him and his works.The thesis is divided into three parts as a whole: the first part is the introduction.This part starts with the purpose and significance of the topic,combs and summarizes the current research status of Cheng Gongsui in the academic circles,and expounds the research ideas of this thesis.The second part is the main body,which consists of five chapters.The first chapter mainly discusses Cheng Gongsui’s life,friends and works.The first section reexamines the records of Cheng Gongsui’s basic information in historical records,and divides his life into two periods:before he became an official,he was silent and did not seek to make himself known;during his tenure,he covered a wide range of subjects and was brilliant.The second section investigates the friendship of Cheng Gongsui,selects Zhang Hua and his colleagues Fu Xuan who work in court,and discusses the influence of different friends on Cheng Gongsui’s life,official career and literary creation.The third section combs the circulation and collection of Cheng Gongsui’s collected works,examines some controversial chapters and lost articles,and makes further clarification of Cheng Gongsui’s existing poems and articles.The second chapter expounds Cheng Gongsui’s thought.The first section discusses his Confucianism,explains his tendency of Confucianism in combination with his social environment and official activities.Through the analysis of his works,it is clear that his Confucianism is embodied in two aspects: advocating the quality of a gentleman and paying attention to enlightenment.The second section discusses his metaphysical thought,combined with the development of metaphysics in the Wei and Jin Dynasties,analyzes his acceptance of the metaphysical theory of " Catching meaning while forgetting image " and his pursuit of nature.On the basis of the previous two sections,it can be concluded that Cheng Gongsui was both Confucian and metaphysical,which were complementary to each other and jointly adjusted all aspects of his life and work.The third chapter discusses Cheng Gongsui’s Ci Fu creation.The first section classifies Cheng Gongsui’s Ci Fu into five categories according to different themes: vegetation(high purity of beautiful things),animals(describing philosophy with things),entertainment(entertaining things to enjoy),natural phenomena(viewing the universe through things),and living utensils(displaying profound knowledge through things).In each section,the theme and content of various Ci Fu are deeply analyzed.The second section summarizes the language art of his Ci Fu into four points:beautiful style,exquisite metaphor,extensive allusions and good use of exaggeration,and makes a detailed discussion combined with specific works.The fourth chapter comments on Cheng Gongsui’s poetry and prose creation,and investigates the appearance of his poetry and prose in detail according to different styles.It analyzes the content and characteristics of his poetry and prose from four parts: poems with diverse themes,music and songs with truthful content,eulogy,inscription and other seven,proverbs and essays.Based on the previous systematic research,the fifth chapter combs the evaluation of later generations,and discusses the influence and value of Cheng Gongsui’s literary creation from two aspects of Ci Fu theory and famous article creation:his theory of Ci Fu emphasizes the ability to embody things,which influenced lu Ji and Zhi Yu’s understanding of fu in the late Wei and Western Jin Dynasties;His famous works such as Xiao Fu and Lishu style have flourished for a long time and have important literary research value.The third part is the conclusion.This part summarizes the full text,further extracts the central argument of this thesis,and explains the shortcomings of the research.