Shun Kang Yong Poet Eight Banners Period

The Eight Banners are a group whose main body is the Manchus. Afterbecoming the masters of Central Plain, they started to absorb and culturerepresented by the Confucianism from Central Plain in the round. After a century,they changed the idea that force, compared with culture, was more important. Andpoem was the main literary form for them. Many people from the Eight Bannersloved poetry. And some of them were famous for their poetry. These poets wereimportant to the poetry in Qing Dynasty. The correlative researches and papers arefew, however.In this paper, the main study object is the poets from Manchus Banners andChinese Banners of the early Qing Dynasty (1644—1735). By searching a variety ofliterature, including the bibliography, series, poetry, and and so on, the author sortedout a total of269poets having works and53kinds of poems still existing in the worldnow. I try to make an overall and systematic study of peots from eight ManchusBanners and eight Chinese Banners of the early Qing Dynasty. Then the research onthe poetry of the Eight Banners can be developed.For better analyses and explain, this paper is reviewed in the sequence of thestatus of poets to show the features of poets of different social classes. And readerswill know the poetic writings of the period more fully.This thesis is made up of five chapters:Chapter One named “The Poets of the Royal Family” introduces three kinds ofpoets, including kings, princes and the members of royal family who had little powerto participate in political activities.Chapter Two as well as Chapter Three introduces the Poets of Officials. ChapterTwo sticks to single poets and shows their character; Chapter Three sticks to thepoem family and explores the similarities and differences between the poets of thesame family.Chapter Four named “The Poets of Commoners” introduces three kinds of poets,including the ones who didn’t want to be officials, the ones who resigned official post and the ones who failed to have been officials.Chapter Five named “The Poetesses” introduces four kinds of poetesses,including the ones who were considerate for husbands and indulgent for children,the ones who were versatile, and the ones were no worse than poets.In front of the main text, there is an “Introduction” made up of two parts. Onemainly introduces the significance of the thesis, former research situation, as well asthe research object, the research method and my innovations; the other mainlyincludes the education and culture condition of the early Qing Dynasty.After the main text, there is a “Conclusion” made up of three parts. Firstly, itsummaries the achievements and characters of the poetry of the Eight Banners;secondly, it explores the similarities and differences between the poets of theManchus Banners and the Chinese Banners; last but not least, it explorescommunication and mixture between the cultures of Manchus and Chinese.There are two appendices,“Memoirs of the Banners Poets of early QingDynasty” and “The Narratives and Records of the Existing Collected works of theBanners Poets of early Qing Dynasty”, at the end.The methods of this paper is examining and determining, at the same time casestudies and overall attention to the relationship between care as far as possible, andhope to be able to in-depth study of poets of the eight Banners; and explorescommunication and mixture between the cultures of Manchus and Chinese, further.