Research On The Jiao Prose In The Pre-Tang Days

As a kind of official document sent to the lower level, the Jiao prose has very strong practicability and material gain color. It came into being with practical need in political life at that society. It was a special product companying with hierarchy, rite and culture in the feudal society. The Jiao prose has differences and similarities with other official documents. For instance, the Jiao and the Ling prose belong to the official documents sent to the lower level, but they are different in word source, meaning, writers'status and practical range, object, system, wording, content, etc. Meanwhile it has similarities and differences with the Ming, the Yu, the Gao, and the Zhao, etc.The Jiao prose can be classified by many standards. Different standards result in different classification, and different kinds also have different functions. It can be divided into cultural and military ones, by broad scope. From different receivers it can be divided into issuing to the public, to the official and to the individual. According to the tone of the prose's writings, it can be divided into the directive, the dissuasive, the directive as well as dissuasive. From the perspective of content, it can be divided into praising the virtue, encouraging, sacrificing, inviting the recluses, warfare, religion, culture and economy, etc. The function of the Jiao prose is not only the one that the upper class issue to the people for imitating, but its main function is how to show the virtue and teach by demonstration. In addition, it can instruct public opinion, inspire morale, advertise, communicate literature, and amuse, etc.As a kind of style, it conceived in the Pre-Qin days, but on the real meaning, the first piece of Jiao prose appeared in the last Han Dynasty. The development of Jiao prose in the Pre-Tang Days can be divided into three periods, namely Han and Wei Dynasties, Jin Dynasty, Northern and Southern Dynasties. As an initial period in Han and Wei Dynasties, the quantity increased gradually, furthermore,...