Research On Yun Xingzong

Yun Xingzong was an important scholar and historian in the early Southern Song Dynasty,and he was the author of 25 volumes of Jiuhua Collection.He is a descendant of Yun Banqian,a poet and scholar of the Tang Dynasty.During the Qiandao period of Emperor Xiaozong of the Song Dynasty,he was ordered by the emperor to enter the imperial court and participate in the study of national history.He was highly praised by the emperor,and was deeply favored by the prominent officials in the dynasty such as Yu Yunwen,Hong Mai,and Ye Yong.He had deep ties with scholars such as Li Tao,Zhang Shi,and Lu Jiuling.However,his personality was very straightforward,and later he was forced to leave the court because he offended the emperor by talking about things.Zhao Ruyu,Li Xinchuan,and others had a high evaluation of him.First of all,Yun Xingzong was born in a scholarly family with profound family culture.During the Northern Song Dynasty,their great-grandfathers Yun Anyu and Yun Anyu entered the imperial ranks in the same year,gaining a significant influence in Sichuan,making the reputation of the Yun family of Renshou reach its peak.The influence of his ancestors’ deeds and the edification of his family culture laid a good foundation for his future poetry creation,scholarship,and history writing.He was admitted to the Imperial Academy a bit later and had a bumpy career in his early years.Later,he joined the Yuyunwen shogunate and was personally on the front line of the Sichuan-Shaanxi battlefield.His experience not only served as a turning point for him to be promoted by the Yu family and participate in political affairs in the dynasty,but also served as a source of materials for his historical books,which made his historical works highly valuable and trustworthy.Secondly,Yun Xingzong lived in Sichuan for a long time,wrote books and studied hard,and had extensive contacts with famous Sichuan literati and scholars in the early Southern Song Dynasty,which had a direct impact on his political activities after entering the dynasty.Centered on his friendship,it shows a scholarly political group headed by Yu Yunwen and dominated by officials from Sichuan in the political arena during the Qiandao period of the Southern Song Dynasty.They not only have intimate relationships,but also have jointly participated in many major political events during the Qiandao period,demonstrating a political character of being outspoken and daring to remonstrate,being a group rather than a party.Thirdly,the number of Yun Xingzong’s poems is not large today,but they have both styles and broad content.His documentary poetry is the most valuable content of his poetry creation,reflecting the social reality of the early Southern Song Dynasty.The rest of his scenic lyric poetry,gift and farewell poetry,historical and nostalgic poetry,and mournful elegy poetry also have excellent literary talent.Yun advocated the restoration of antiquity in his poetry and prose orientation,and he also learned from other scholars.He integrated his personality and temperament with the learning of previous poetry,creating a variety of styles in his poetry that were plain,bold,vigorous,and strange,dangerous,and difficult.Finally,Yun Xingzong inherited the tradition of developed historiography in Sichuan,and after entering the imperial court,he spent a long time studying national history in a history museum,which enabled him to possess good historical literacy.His achievements in historical works are quite high,and his The Beginning and End of the Shaoxing Caishi War is an indispensable historical book for studying the Song and Jin quarrying wars,which has had a profound impact on the writing of official and private history books in the Song Dynasty.Western Border note Outline not only has extremely high military value for investigating the situation of the Song Jin war,historical geography,and other situations in the Sichuan Shaanxi region in the early Southern Song Dynasty,but also has an undeniable significance for investigating the formation of the historical books of the Southern Song Compendium.In addition,the academic thoughts revealed in his Jiuhua Collection are of typical significance for investigating the trend of mainstream academic thought in the early Southern Song Dynasty,the intermediate link between the development of mind science,and the shift of Neo-Confucianism to centripetal science.