The Study Of TianJian's Poetics Written By QianChengzhi

TianJian's Poetics is a book written by QianChengzhi who explains the meaning of The Book of Songs and tells us the theroy about these poems. This thesis focuses on the writing background of this therotecial book and discusses how QianChengzhi make a note of The Book of Songs. Above all, we conclude his poetics theory from TianJian's Poetics. Besides, this paper makes a comparative study with SunChengze and WangFuzhi to see the difference between their poetics. Then we understand the characteristic of his research. We also try to know the importance of this book in the academic history of The Book of Songs during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. The appendix is a complete chronicle of QianChengzhi and a diagram showing his family's ancestry.