A Study On The Literary Group Of Xiao Tong

In the long history of china, numerous writers established a literary group because of their sharing creation thought. For example, there is a group led by the Prince Liang Zhaoming, in which they created lots of works. What's more, another Prince Xiao Tong whose literary style rouses the creation interests of many people. Study on the Xiao Tong literary group makes us not only comprehend the cause and formation of the group, but also clearly see the impact of historic era on the writers and vice versa. The historic and realistic significance plays a very important part in past and in modern economic construction and reform and opening policy.Xiang Tong literary group has about 32 writers, as represented by Scholar Liu Xie and The Ten Scholars Lived in Donggong palace. The formation and the evolution of the Xiao Tong group were classified into three stages. Firstly, the germination of the literary group is from Xiao Tong lived out of Donggong Palace (506) to his capping ceremony (514), this stage was mainly based on his learning. Xiao Yan (the founder of Nan Liang regime) helps Xiao Tong select a group of scholar of literature, and then it formed the literature circle centered on the scholar Xiao Tong. Secondly, the formation and development of Xiao Tong literary group is from the Xiao Tong's capping ceremony (514) to his death (531). Due to the scholar Shen Yue's death at that time, and the establishment of Xiao Tong's political power and his noble-mined personality, and the union of a group of famous scholar in literature, so many literary activities was carried out, and the anthology compiled under the help of the King Xiao Tong. Thirdly, the end period of Xiao Tong's literary group is from his death(531) to the sixth year in Zhong Da Tong (534).with the entrance of Xiao Gang lived in Donggong palace, owing to the literary combine and the political squeeze, the Xiao Tong literary group had been gradually disappeared.After comprehensive observation on the development of the group, its formation benefited from political and personal factors of Xiao Tong. Due to Shen Yue and Ren Fang's help on the following scholar and the Xiao Yan's selection of scholar in literature, it established solid foundation of the Xiao Tong literary group in intelligence, and at the same time, the formation and the development of the group was objectively pushed up by the work of Xiao Tong's political identity and his own personal taste in literature. The literary group has a feature in politics, because of the production the political struggle. They carried out some important academic activities in literature, so it has the feature in academy. What's more, the group existed in the complicated surroundings, and the frequency of member's flow, so the group has also an open featureThe literary thought of Xiao Tong literary group has one of the most actively healthy in Liang Dynasty. And it has been embodied in the works of Xiao Tong, Liu Xiaochuo, Liu Xie, etc. They inherited the Confucian thought, so called elegance. They found the thought of return to the ancients advocated by Pei Ziye as well as the limitation of Shen Yue and Xiao Gang in newly changed literary thought, so called dialectics. And they located in the changing times of literature, so they emphasized the changing as well as they are influenced by the ingredient of emotion, so called emotional emphasis. Many works was left in Xiao Tong literary group. In the poetry, the most unique aspect is the object-chanting poetry, the reciprocal poetry and the erotic poetry. There also has a lot of excellent works in prose and CiFu, but most of the remaining works are incomplete, making it difficult to conduct an overall evaluation.In a word, Xiao Tong literary group played a keen role in Liang Dynasty, its formation and development closely related the classification of its literature. Their golden mean thought is the guidance of literary style combination in Nan-Bei Dynasty. And their compiled production in literature—anthology, has become name-branded Chinese traditional culture as well as deeply influenced on the posterity.