Fang Hui’s Aesthetic Criticism About The Song Dynasty Poetry

Firstly, in order to study the view of Fang hui’s Song poetry, we should know how he divide schools of Song poetry. The school of Wantang poetry and the school of Xikun poetry are schools of the early Song peotry. We could study Lin bu’s poetry to get Fang hui’s view about the school of Wantang poetry. He appreciated the artistic style of Lin bu’s plum blossom poems and Nine Monks’ neat ones. There are some defects in both schools. The school of Wantang poetry are not only narrow but also lightly. Xikun poets like to study Li shangyin’s poems, they regarded him as their teacher. The school of Xikun poetry is too cut and polish. The more you read, the more you feel boring.The beginning of Ou yangxiu and Mei raochen, Song peotry had its own style. Followed by Ou yangxiu’s and Mei raochen’s poems, Huang tingjian’s poems were widely spread. He was also the originator of the school of Jiangxi poetry. The school of Jiangxi poetry is a very important school in Chinese poetry history. Fang hui’s views about Song poetry embodied in the school of Jiangxi poetry’s aethetic criticism. He focused on rhythm, words, style and emotion. He appriciated Aoti poetry and variant poetry, He deemed Aoti poems broke the normal poems’ procedure, which making poems more profound and forceful. Variant poems are more wonderful and expressively than normal poems. Poetry style is an important standard in Fang hui’s aesthetic criticism views.Poetry styles were divided into three kinds of boundaries in his idea:the first kind of poetry is bad, there are no characteristics but are poems. The second kind of poetry is good, there are the artistic conceptions and the beautiful words. The third is better than the second, there are not only the artistic conceptions and the beautiful words but also the wonderful styles. In order to solve the rough style in the late of Jiangxi poetry, Fanghui tried to use Mei rao cheng’s idea (therefore for the new, the vulgar as elegance) to avoid this problem. At the same time, he also agreed with Lv benzhong’s idea that writing a good poem should pay attention to use a flexible method. Fang hui considered the South Song Four Poets had their own clearly style. Their poems are lingering charm. Yong Jia Si Ling’s poetic style is similar with Wantang poetic style. Fang hui hated Jianghu poetic style, which was redundant and frivolous.Secondly, comparing the similarities and differences between Yan yu and Fang hui, we can get Fang hui’s idea about aesthetic criticism of Song poetry.The first feature is view of Tang poetry and Song poetry. Yan yu considered Tang poetry was better than Song poetry. On the contrary, Fang hui considered Song poetry had its own style which was deferent from Tong poetry. It understands the poetry of the Han, Wei and Tang dynasty in Yan yu’s view. But Fang hui put forward the way of poetry should master Lao Du, Huang, Chen, JianZhai, slightly wider Mei shengyu and Zhang wenqian. Their poems are poetry models. To choose five or seven words poetry, which are not like others,Fang hui had his own standard and view.The second feature is that Fang hui chose the objective fairness of poetry. Firstly, Song poetry is more than tang poetry in his composition Ying Kui Lv Sui. The selection method is fair and objective. Secondly, Fang hui is nicker of the school of Jiangxi poetry. He based on Jiangxi poetry and improved it further. At the same time, he also appreciated other schools’poetry theory. In addition, he put forward a key initiative Yi Zu San Zong for the Jiangxi poetry.The third feature is that Fang hui’s comment on poetry is different from other people. Yan yu transversely discussed the character of poems, but Fang hui vertically tasted the ptos and cons of poetry, Fang hui pay attention to sentences and words. In a word, different schools have different styles in Song dynasty poetry. There are clearly and dense, or fresh, or thin and strength, or plain and smooth, or clear grarifying etc. Fang hui selected poems which is a particular emphasis on difficult words poetry and variant ones. There are two separate volume comment in Ying Kui Lv Sui.The forth feature is that Fang hui write poems by studying the Song dynasty poetry such as Huang tingjian’s and Chen shidao’s poetic style, which is thin, dry, strough and plain. He also studied Bai juyi’s and Zhang lei’s portic style. At the same time, Fang hui very adocated Lv benzhong’s poetic style, which is acuminous and beautiful. He tried to become two different poetic styles into a king of style.The fifth feature is that there are precious historical data in Fang hui’s compositions such as Ying Kui Lv Sui. Firstly, Fang hui clearly analysised the history of the development of Song poetry, which provided the basis of research the poetry of Song dynasty. Secondly, Fang hui booked down details of schools’member, poetic styles and the history of schools of Song poetry. Expecially, he made a big step for the school of Jiangxi poetry. Finally, Fang hui writed poet’s age, political background and historical events, which are many historical data to get poet’s life and writings.