The Research On The Taixia Cave Collection

Taixia Cave Collection is a collection of poems and essays by Du Wenhuan,a general in the late Ming Dynasty.Du Wenhuan,born on April 24,the ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty,died in the seventh year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty,was a famous military general and poet in the late Ming Dynasty.In his entire life,his outstanding military exploits are a summary of his military career;the integration of the three religions and the devotion to writing are the interpretation of his pen and ink life.Although he is a military general,there are also many poems and essays left in the world.There are currently two editions of Taixia Cave Collection: the edition published during the Longwu period of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the edition published during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty.The author conducts textual research on the version of Taixia Cave Collection,the time of writing the book and its description,and analyzes and explores the Taixia Cave Collection and Taixia Collection Selection,Taixia Cave Collection and The Synthesis of Three Religions.The similarities and differences of poetry and prose,we can grasp the poetry creation and literary thought in Taixia Cave Collection as a whole.Through the research of this article,we have a general and comprehensive understanding of the overall situation of Taixia Cave Collection,which also lays the foundation for the subsequent in-depth study of this collection.This paper is a research on the collection of poems and essays Taixia Cave Collection,which consists of four chapters.The First chapter is to supplement the biographical information of Du Wenhuan and his family members,the second is to examine Du Wenhuan’s social contacts,the third is to focus on his early writings,and finally is to examine the book Taixia Cave Collection.There are seven aspects: the first aspect,supplementary information on the life of Du Wenhuan and his family members.First,it is possible to infer a poem about Du Wenhuan’s birth year and a preface to his birth date,so as to resolve the dispute about where he died.It was Du Hongwei,Du Hongfang and Du Hongchang,and his aunt Du Shi was a martyr girl.In the second aspect,the investigation of Du Wenhuan’s contacts shows that his contacts are very wide,and the three groups of officials and colleagues,literati and poets,and monks and Taoists are his main contacts.The third aspect is a study of Du Wenhuan’s early works.From the fourth to the seventh aspect,the author discusses the book,edition and description of Taixia Cave Collection.Mainly as follows: First,Taixia Cave Collection(including appendix two volumes,pre-and post-order)contains1,708 poems.Second,it is verified that the original writing time of the thirty-two volumes of Taixia Cave Collection was around the Wuwu Year of Wanli(1618),and now the thirty-two volumes of Taixia Cave Collection collected by the National Library of China,the second volume of appendix The time of writing the book should be after the third year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty(1646).Third,the textual research shows that there are two editions of Taixia Cave Collection.Fourth,there are 16 kinds of records in Taixia Cave Collection.The second chapter,the overall grasp of Taixia Anthology and Taixia Cave,Three Churches and Taixia Cave.There are two aspects to the difference between Chinese poetry and prose.The first aspect,first of all,sort out the writing process,arrangement style,number of volumes,total amount of selected poems,editions and related descriptions of Taixia Collection.Secondly,to sort out the similarities and differences of the poems of Taixia Collection and Taixia Cave Collection.In the second aspect,first of all,sort out the writing process,arrangement style,number of volumes,total number of selected poems,editions and related descriptions of The Three Churches.Secondly,grasp the similarities and differences between The Three Churches and Taixa Cave Collection.The third chapter discusses the poems in Taixia Cave Collection.First of all,grasp the overall situation of the concentrated poetry from the perspective of the theme content of the poetry and the artistic characteristics of the poetry.This group has a wide range of genres and many themes;its poetic artistic features are mainly manifested in the use of long poems,a large number of creation of group poems,strict rhythm,and extensive use of natural images.Secondly,grasp the general situation of the concentrated articles from the perspectives of the article genre and its content,and the article’s artistic characteristics.This collection is diverse in style and rich in content;the artistic features of its articles are mainly prose,with parallel prose,elegant rhetoric,and diverse styles.The fourth chapter discusses Taixia Cave Collection·Yiji and Du Wenhuan’s literary thought.There are five main points in his literary thought: poetics in the early Tang Dynasty and literature in the six dynasties;advocating poetry is precious and true temperament;attaching importance to the social function of literature;opposing blind imitation,and focusing on the character of generals in poetry creation;literary creation should be based on inheritance Innovate.