Study On Family And Literature Of Lin In Linpu Of Fuzhou In The Ming Dynasty

The Lin Family of Linpu in the Ming Dynasty is famous for its "seven imperial examinations achieving eight Jinshi(a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations in feudal China),three generations with five Shangshu(a high official in ancient China)",which is an important imperial examination and literature family in Fuzhou.The family rose in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty,and its prestige reached its peak through Lin Yuanmei,Lin Han,Lin Tingang,Lin Tingji,Lin Lian,Lin Ting,etc.After entering the Qing Dynasty,Lin Family continued to take imperial civil examinations,but its glory in official circles was long gone.This paper takes the literature of the Lin Family of Linpu in Ming Dynasty as the study object,aiming to outline and restore the historical status of the Lin Family in the Ming Dynasty and to discuss the achievements of the members of the Lin Family in creation of poetic prose in the Ming Dynasty.Lin Han is the core figure of the Lin Family in the Ming dynasty.He has l aid down most of the Lin Family’s cultural traditions,through successive generations of children and grandchildren,which have formed a relatively stable family cultural tradition.He established the cultural tradition of the Lin Family,which is “Confucian classics,history,philosophy and literature handing down from generation to generation in the family”.Lin’s descendants followed in his footsteps and mostly studied the classic of the Spring and Autumn Annals.Lin Han entered the Hanl in Academy to compile and edit national history.His descendants Lin Tingji and Lin Lian also entered the Hanlin Academy one after another following in his foot steps and keeping his business.On the issue of children’s marriage,Lin Han refused to accept powerful or rich families.Taking the imperial examination family status as the primary factor,he established Lin’s criteria for choosing in-laws.In creation of poetic prose,Lin Han’s gentle-and-sincere literary view and fresh-and-natural poetic study style and custom also had a profound impact on Lin’s descendants.As a literary family,in the Ming Dynasty,there are many people who can write poems in Lin Family.Lin Han is the first one of the Lin Family to go nationwide as a writer.During the years of Chenghua and Hongzhi,he had close contactswith the writers of Hanlin Academy such as Li Dongyang,Wu Kuan and Cheng Minzheng.Lin Han’s poems have obvious Secretariat characteristics.His poetry style is dignified,elegant,impartial and sluggish.His ancient style prose venerates reason,esteems elegance,respects classics,and reveres the succession of teachings from masters to disciples.In addition to being a ciminister in the pavilion,Lin Han is also a poet with a bold and unrestrained personality,who highly praises Li Bai’s poems and songs,and is good at the seven rhythms with "heroic" and "fresh" poems.In addition,Lin Han is also a great writer of semantic text,whose semantic text pays attention to the layout of the article,and is full of twists and turns.In the sentence pattern,long sentences and whole sentences are used more,with a calm and solemn style.Following Zheng Shanfu,a great leader in the middle of Fujian at the time of Zheng and Jia,Linxuan,the son of Lin Han,was an important writer in Fuzhou.At the turning period of the Long and Wan,Lin tingji and Lin Lian were the representatives of the writers in Fuzhou.Lin Tingji’s poems can be divided into three periods according to the sequence of creation time,i.e early,middle and late,with obvious stage characteristics.Generally speaking,the artistic style changes from quiet beautiful and elegant to fresh and lofty,and then to distant and indifferent.His ancient prose focuses on important military and political issues,which is not only rich in historical data value in content,but also is orderly in narration and cautious in exposition.Lin Xie advocates restoring ancient ways,whose poems are drawn from the Han,Wei and six Dynasties to the prosperous Tang Dynasty.Lin Xie pays attention to the current politics,uses poetry to criticize the current malpractices,and is known as the history of poetry.Lin Xie’s pastoral poetry has a fresh and far-reaching style.In terms of sentence structure,under the influence of the style of Tao of Han Lin,Lin Xie imitated Tao’s simple and unadorned syntax with a plain and natural style.Lin Xie’s seven ancient poems learn the syntax and imposing manner of Li Bai’s songs,with a bold and magnificent style.Lin Xie’s ancient prose creation is especially outstanding,which talks about national fi nance and military affairs and frontier defense mostly,with great boldness of vision and structure.From an artistic point of view,continuing the tradition of Han Lin studying from Owen,Lin Xie’s ancient Chinese prose is elegant and graceful by learning from euphemistic characteristics of Oven.In the middle period of Wanli,Lin Ting had frequent contacts with celebrities such as Hu Yinglin and Ye Xianggao.The poetry of Lin Family also reached prime when handing down to lin Ting.He learns widely from others’ strong points in his poems,with various types or forms of literature,having the most diversified artistic features.Officials of four libraries believe that Lin Ting’s poetry collection "Fu bu cao" follows the latter seven sons,with more old tunes and less new ones.Based on the evaluation of Lin Ting’s poems by Hu Yinglin,Ye Xianggao and Cao Xuequan,and the Fujian features in Lin Ting’s poetics,it is can be found that this evaluation by the officials of the four libraries is unfair.Generally speaking,Lin Ting’s five-ancient poems are exquisite in thought,seven-ancient poems are grand and magnificent,five-character rhymes are richly embellished,five-character rhymes are implicit and meaningful,seven-character rhymes are gentle and peaceful,and quatrains are fresh and elegant.In the aspect of ancient prose,it mainly discusses the memorials closely related to the malpractice of mining tax,and these memorials reflect Lin Ting’s political responsibility as a Confucian scholar-bureaucrat and his family and country feelings.The prosperity of Lin family in Fujian county was often praised in Ming Dynasty,which was not only seen in the official history of “Ming Dynasty”,but also in the note “Wan Li Ye Huo Bian”.What’s more,some giants in the literary world would also not forget to add a point to Lin family.Wang Shizhen’s "Imperial Ming Grand Event Description" listed Lin family as a "clan official" alongside Xu family in Ling Bao and Yang family in Jingchuan,Yinxian.In Shao Jiechun’s edition of " The Sage Book of Fujian Province" in the late Ming Dynasty,Lin family was even listed as the first family in Fujian Province.Compared with other exaggerated records,this evaluation was more objective and appropriate.