Fang Hui's Views Of Tang Verse On YingKuiLuSui

Fang Hui was a very influential poet and theorist living between the end of Song Dynasty and the beginning of Yuan Dynasty. His work, YingKuiLuSui, was a famous Tang-Song selected verses mixing anthology, annotate and comment. Serving for Yuan Dynasty not only influenced on his thinking and character but also on his academia. Fang Hui esteemed Confucianism, and pursued Zhu Xi's rationalism all his life, "thinking of stiffness as smooth, wildness as profound, and refinement as fundamental", and in iterary theory he valued "highbrow" and "sophisticated", in order to be immortal by writing. When commenting and choosing Tang verses, Fang Hui, with a historian eye, often remarked the poets and their works from the historical perspect, which objectively showed his peculiar point of view in Tang verses, especially in the developing history of regular verses. The thesis gives a concise description about Tang Dynasty poets in YingKuiLuSui, starting from the reason of writing it, Fang Hui's choosing standard and verse theory proposition, the comments of Tang Master Poets, and the stage-dividing of Tang verses and the contribution of selected verses, combining all aspects, and through fine comments on Tang verses of every stage, which induced Fang Hui's verse ideas and refleced how literature circles mastered Tang verses during Song-Yuan Dynasty era from one aspect, and then this research may further enrich and improve Fang Hui's verse theory, which enable people appreciate his contribution and consequence .