A Study Of Cai Songnian

Cai Songnian (1107～1159),his another name is Baijian, and his alias is Xiao Xian OldMan, resided in Hang Zhou at birth. He defended Yan Shan city with his father during theend years of Xuanhe reign period of the Song dynasty. He and his father surrendered to the Jindynasty after being defeated. After that he resided in Zhen Ding of He Bai province. He firstlywas a punishment official in the prefectural government and followed with Jin army to attackthe Song dynasty. After that he was promoted as Vice Director of the Temporary Ministry ofPunishment and shortly promoted as Vice Director of the Ministry of Punishment. Because ofachievement in Tian Que Cabal Case, he was promoted as Vice Director of the Left Bureau ofthe Department of State Affairs. During the Tiande reign period of the Jin dynasty, he wassupposed as a diplomatic envoy to Koryo. He was promoted as Senior Director of theMinistry of Personnel after emperor of Hai Ling usurped the throng, then as Minister of theMinistry of Revenue. He constructed the new Yanjing city as the capital of Jin dynasty andmoved monopolized businessman to make rich the capital. In succession he issued papermoney as the substitute for gold and sliver, which brought more benefit to Jin dynasty. He waspromoted as the Assistant Administrator, the Left Prime Minister of the Department of StateAffairs, the Right Prime Minister of the Department of State Affairs, and was conferred aduke of Wei for success. At the four year of Zhenglong reign period of Jin dynasty theemperor killed him with poisoned wine for doubting him getting out the secret of attackingSong dynasty. Shortly regretting, the emperor conferred him a duke of Wu, posthumous titleof Weng Jian.. He had an anthology published.In Cai's poetry, some remembers his post travel, some deeply touches his feeling ofunrest and separation, some records his sorrow of destroyed country, and some mourns hisanxiousness of lodge for official. He expressed his joy to forest and spring and yearning forbeing a hermit in his works. He said in his works he had little of ambition for official andknowledge for worldly-wise in childhood, while he was fond of discoursing metaphysicselegantly. His ci poetry shows fresh and powerful vitality in style which follows the example of Su Shi's skill and enlightens Xin Qiji on creation. His skill of creating ci pieces lies in thefirst range in Jin dynasty. His poem takes on vigorous and charming diction in style whichfollows the example of Huang Tingjian's creation. He created a new poem school and earnedhis model for poets to write poem.My paper basing on the compare distinguished the similarities and differences from otherpoets and the state of his mind as he struggled for self-respect and making live in the disorderworld. The paper consists of three parts: the former describes all his life with analyzing thehonor, discriminating the Slander and separating closely the achievement from mistake; themiddle discuss the main content of his works which he expressed his worries for being anofficial and joy for being a hermit, enjoying the quiet and hating the vulgar; the latter exploreshis success of initiating a new literary movement in Jin dynasty and constructing a model forliterati of Jin dynasty. The total is about 120 thousand characters.