White Body Poets

This thesis puts forward an argument that the first appearance of Bai Style is in the Mid-Tang Dynasty, not in the early of Song. Accordingly it gives the Bai Style a new definition and the discrimination of its synonym, and makes an investigation on the conditions of the Bai Style poet school taken form and the process of this poem sect. The major point is: as a brand new style, its most important change is that it has given up the tradition of "poem is to state aspiration". The Bai style poets think highly of the poem's efficacy of criticizing social problem, so they advocate the ancient theory which indicate poem should" sing the praises of the politics or satirize it ", their representative works are new musical poems and poems -written in Qingzhong, on the other hand, they also put emphasis on the poem's appreciation of the beauty, that is to say, poem is to express poet's feelings, even to describe the human nature. To express these themes, they create some new style, such as obvious, easy, smooth, and so on. After describing the develop of Bai Style poet school in the Later-Tang Dynasty and the Five-dynasty Dynasty, this thesis puts emphasis on discussing the poems of Bai style in earlier Song Dynasty. It puts forward an argument that in earlier Song Dynasty Bai Style poets study Juyi Bai's "leisurely and carefree mood poems" at first, then they return to the tradition of "poem is to state aspiration", and their aspiration is to win successes in settle political problems. The representative poets are Tianci, Zhangyong and YuchenWang.