A Study On Dong Qi’s Poems And Essays

Dong Qi,widely known in the literary world in the middle of the Ming Dynasty,is not only the litterateurs of the "Parade caves",but also a unique scholar of "living in the body is quiet and group things are not party",and a powerful practitioner of the Retro Movement of the Ming Dynasty literature.Born in an official family with profound family learning and self-restraint of loyalty,he has been familiar with Confucian classics since childhood.His character is clear,honest and upright,and he practises the philosophy of Confucian administration and application all his life.In his poetry creation,Dong Qi can play both a clear-cut literary advocate and a conscious literary practice.In the face of the situation that the "Former Seven Children" and other retro schools put the Confucian Six Classics on hold,they guided the world to revalue the aesthetic value and spiritual connotation of the six Classics through the literary concept of the Confucian Six Classics as the base.In his creative practice,Dong Qi is proficient in ethics and can express his spirit as well.This kind of "new change" was relatively rare in the literary world at that time,and had a positive impact on the change of the literary world’s habits.Although they advocate classical poetry,they do not blindly follow the ancient.In poetry,he practices the Confucian poetic spirit of "xing,view,group and resentment".In artistic style,he presents the characteristics of romantic charm and seclusion,likes to use the images of clouds and mountains,uses the Canon according to the emotion,and makes good use of reduplication of words.In the prose,"to the ancient text as the time","elegant and gallant,weilu delicate",both on the social ecology of the profound thinking,but also to express feelings of the temperament revealed,the formation of long at the discussion,flexible syntax,"get the western Han author’s marrow" artistic style.In the middle of the Ming Dynasty,the wind of ancient treading was prevailing.Dong Qi was qi at the time,but his poetry creation was unconventional,and his practice became his own style.In politics,in ambition,in study,in literature,all take "ancient" as the beautiful ideal of life,which reflects the value orientation of the traditional Confucian scholars based on the ancient consciousness of the Ming Dynasty,and also has a certain enlightening effect on the literary construction of "Tang and Song school".