A Study On Zheng Xuan's Poetry And Music Thought

This article focuses on Zheng Xuan's poetry and music thought, we'll study the conditions of its generation and its theoretical content, all-round way and in-depth, elaborate and evaluate it historically and seeking truth from facts.Thesis is divided into five parts.The introductive part sorts out the studies of Zheng Xuan since the 20th century systematically, analyzes the progress and the remaining issues of the study, and clears the breakthrough point and academic purpose of this study.This article holds that previous studies lack of attention to two important issues, First, the relations between the ideological construction of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Zheng Xuan's Jing Xue and the literary ideas of Zheng Xuan; Second, the relations between Classic notes and ideological aspirations of zhengxuan. In the study, Zheng Xuan will be placed in the ideological construction of the late Eastern Han Dynasty. We'll explore the internal relations between pattern change of study and the formation of Zheng Xuan's thought, and discuss the relations between Zheng Xuan's academic achievements and his poetry and music thought, and elaborate the internal structure and the rich connotation of Zheng Xuan's poetry and music thought. At the same time, we'll elaborate the research horizon and discipline ideas, research mentality and methods, text materials and so on.The first chapter outlines Zheng Xuan's life and the formation of the thought, Analyze Time, own circumstances and teachers, which influence the formation of Zheng Xuan's poetry and music thought.The Second, third, and fourth chapter are the main parts of this article.which focus on the composition and inner thoughts of Zheng Xuan's poetry and music thought. Zheng Xuan's poetry and music thought is discussed in two parts, which are the generation of poetry and music and the effect of poetry and music.The second and the third chapter mainly talk about the generation of the poetry and music, in which we'll elaborate Zheng xuan's understanding to the generating rule of the poetry and music, and clear his basic view from six aspects, which are "orthodox and variation", "praise and satire", "comparison and affective image", "feeling and intent", "communicate with Politics", "Yin and Yang". "The theory of orthodox and variation"mainly elaborates Zheng xuan's analysis and theoretical basis about dividing poetry into "orthodox" and "change"; "The theory of praise and satire "focuses on analyzing the stipulation of the purpose of the poetry; "The theory of comparison and affective image" interprets the poet's mode of discourse and elaborates how Zheng Xuan explains the rule of affective image; "The theory of feeling and intent" mainly discusses the determining factors and characteristics about Poet's emotion; "The theory of communicating with Politics" reveals the emotional point and ultimate concern of the poet; "The theory of Yin and Yang" analyzes the underlying elements of poetry generation.The fourth chapter elaborates Zheng Xuan's viewpoints of the effect of poetry and music, and elaborates how Zheng Xuan thinks of the poetry and music's social function in its spreading.Zheng Xuan thinks that the effects of poetry and music mainly include three aspects, which are "The theory of transference", "The theory of inferiority or superiority of using music", "The theory of reference for political prosperity and decline". "The theory of transference" focuses on the influence of the poetry and music, emphasizes its function of education; "The theory of inferiority or superiority of using music"pulls the social hierarchy into the consumption of the arts, and emphasizes the difference between inferiority or superiority in literary appreciation; "The theory of reference for political prosperity and decline" emphasizes on the warning role for the rulers in the spread of the poetry and music. These expositions show the demands of special effects in the appreciation of the poetry and musicThe fifth chapter discusses how Zheng Xuan's thought impacts on future generations. These effects are divided into two types, which are direct and indirect, further sub-divided into four areas: the dissemination of works of Zheng Xuan, the academic inheritance of Zheng Xuan, the reference and extension of Zheng Xuan's ideas, the enlightenment of the theory category. Although there are differences on the method and the degree, yet all are attributed to the acceptance and dissemination of Zheng Xuan's thought.