Research On Reception Of Ruan Ji By Literature Before Tang Dynasty

As one of the “seven sages of the bamboo grove”, Ruan Ji showed “random” style in his life, which generated far-reaching effect on later ages. Meanwhile, Ruan Ji also is the important author during Zhengshi period because his five-character Yonghuai Poetry has been highly concerned since its publishing. The literary critic in Southern and Northern Dynasties Liu Xie and Zhong Rong rendered high evaluation to Ruan Ji’s Yonghuai Poetry; the period before Tang Dynasty is the important time for determining the status of Ruan Ji in istory of literature.Most studies of Ruan Ji at present emphasize on the research of the ideological contents and artistic method of Yonghuai Poetry, and the comparative research of Ruan Ji with other authors. In the aspect of reception of Ruan Ji, scholars focus on the outline of dynastic acceptance history; therefore, the research in the view of readers’ reception shall be a new perspective.Based on text analysis, this article blended Chinese and western Reception Aesthetics Theory. The introduction part mainly discussed about two issues: firstly, by sorting the research history and status of Ruan Ji during recent 100 years, it discovered the blank and insufficiency of reception research of Ruan Ji. Secondly, it briefly introduced text framework structure, and meaning as well as innovation of topic selection so as to highlight the value of reception research of Ruan Ji. Except for the introduction, this article includes three sections. The first chapter emphatically expounded the reception of Ruan Ji’s “random” style by Cao Wei and some people in the Western Jin Dynasty. By taking Zuo Si, Guo Pu and Tao Yuanming as examples, the second chapter mainly discussed about the reception of Ruan Ji’s Yonghuai Poetry by mainstream scholars in the Jin Dynasties; the poems suits of Zuo Si’s Historical Poem, Guo Pu’s Poems of Mystical Excursion and Tao Yuanming’s Drinking all came down in one continuous line with Ruan Ji’s Yonghuai Poetry. The third chapter focused on the reception of Ruan Ji by major scholars in Southern and Northern Dynasties. As the “first reader” of Ruan Ji’s Yonghuai Poetry, Song Yanyanzhi played significant role in the history of reception of Ruan Ji before Tang Dynasty. Liang Jiangyan opened the first step of imitating Ruan Ji’s poems with taking “Poem imitating Ruan Ji’s Style” as title initially, which is meaningful to the reception history of Ruan Ji. Their similar life experience made Geng Xin in Northern Zhou Dynasty generate strong sense of identity of Ruan Ji; meanwhile, the 27 poems in Yonghuai Poetry Imitation further enriched and developed the content of Ruan Ji’s Yonghuai Poetry.