Yinglin Poetry Theory Exploration

Hu Yinglin is a scholar and poem theorist of late period of restore ancient thought in Ming dynasty. Because of Wang Shizhen and his younger brother's appreciate,Hu Yinglin is listed as one of "the latest five gentleman".As a famous bibliophile of Zhejiang,Huyinglin bend himself to do research and write all through his life and finally get great accomplishments on literature, historiography, the science of catalogue and philology .According to "The Lanxi County Annal" and "Memoir of Mr.Shiyang ",Hu Yinglin has 903 volumes works, of which mostly has been lost and only poem monograph "Poem Abyss" ,"Shaoshishanfang Collction" and "Shaoshishanfang Note" have been existed. "Poem Abyss" centrally embodies Hu Yinglin's poem study thought, and became a unusual system precisely work for it's vast content and huge scale.Different from ancient works' shapeless, "Poem Abyss" has a clear clue and organized logically. The whole book divided into four parts, and the major points save in "The Inner Arrange" and "The Outer Arrange" two parts. The two parts carry on an investigation in ancient poem from the style and epoch angle separately, and proposed a important poem history viewpoint that "style changed by generation, and style fell by generation".Hu Yinglin believed that poesy's ceaseless change is a inevitable trend, he carries on the analysis from poesy's own rule and the outside factor two aspects, and then admitted the objectivity and rationality of poesy's unceasing change. "Poem Abyss" studied the evolution of the four syllables poem, ancient Yuefu, the five syllables poem and so on, and concluded each style's characters at the same time. While Hu Yinglin still believed that the style of the poem is degenerating along with its development at the same time, so he advanced the only way to revive the poesy's glory is to imitate the ancient poem's style. This is Hu Yinglin's basic standpoint.Hu Yinglin also proposed the poesy esthetic highest ideal when he concluded the style and achievement of each dynasty and Style, namely the poesy must have the holistic esthetic sense; Based on this standard ,he give high appraisal to Tang Dynasty's...