The Textual Research Of Liu Guan's Friends And Contacts

Liu Guan (1270-1342),a writer of Yuan Dynasty, was as known as Liu Daochuan, also named Wu Shushan Ren and Jing Jian Weng. He was from Pujiang county of Zhejiang province. He follows Jin Lvxiang studying Neo-Confucianism, and studying literature from Fang Feng, Wu Siqi and Xie Ao. He was professor of Jiangshan county by way of recommendation in 1300, then turned into professor of Changguo administrative division in 1308. He became teaching assistant of Guozi department in 1319, and soon prompted Doctor. In 1324, He turned into Doctor of Taichang department, then shifted Confucianism Tiju in Jiangxi province in 1326, and returned home after three years. At last, he promoted Daizhi of Hanlin department in 1341.Liu Guan died in 1342, was age of seventy-three. His students respectfully address him as Wensu. His writing was Liu Daizhi collected works which includes 20 volumes.Liu Guan was master of literature in Yuan Dynasty, and made a lot of friends in whole nation. The research of Liu Guan was at an early stage in academic circles recently which was focused on the research of his poem and prose. But his whole life and situation of contacting were detailed verified by other scholars. So my paper tries to fill this vacancy. The preface simply introduced the whole life and researchful status of Liu guan. The article is devided three chapters which discussed the situation of contacting about Liu Guan and his teachers, friends and students.The first chapter is Liu Guan and his teachers. Liu Guan and Yu Ji, Jie Xisi, Huang Jin were called"Four Heroic Confucians"together, so he has deeply academic origins which was related to his teachers. He follows Jin Lvxiang studying Neo-Confucianism in childhood, so he has deep-seated attainments of Neo-Confucianism. He studied literature from Fang Feng, Wu Siqi and Xie Ao, then he obtained progress in poem and prose. Among his three teachers, Liu Guan was influenced deeply by Fang Feng. Afterwards, Liu Guan went to Hangzhou where famous scholars gathered at that time. He followed those famous scholars, such as Fang Hui, Gong Kai, Qiu Yuan, and so on. Then he became famous for literature at that time.The second chapter is Liu Guan and his friends. In this chapter, according to major regional characters of Liu Guan's life and contact, this session divided his friends into two parts: the hometown friends in Wuzhou and the colleagues in capital. Liu Guan has close contact with his hometown friends in Wuzhou which holds unique status in his contacts. This part expounds the people who are Huang Jin, Xu Qian, Wu Lai, and so on. Liu Guan stayed in capital for whole ten years which had extensive contact in his life. This part expounds the people who had close contact with him and helped to promote his fame in literature or politics.The third chapter is Liu Guan and his students. Liu Guan was engaged in teaching all his life, no matter he worked in locality or authorities, Liu Guan also worked cautious and conscientious. So he developed many talented persons for country. The students of Liu guan were came form Wuzhou mostly, among these students, Liu Guan most appreciated students are Song Lian and Dai Liang who gained the greater achievement in literature. This chapter expounds the two people, the others are discussed briefly.The paper recounts the learning and literature of Liu Guan in ending part which are generalization for Liu Guan's learning. Furthermore, the paper try to verify the controvert which debate about style of Liu Guan's poem.In short, this paper disposes the contacts of Liu Guan as axial trace, and run through his literary thinking along with scientific thinking, What is more, the paper tries to verify carefully his life and doubtful point about his poetic group, in order to better understand literary circles in Yuan Dynasty, especially literature of Wuzhou through the research of Liu Guan.