A Study Of Cabinet Minister Huang Huai’s Poems And Articles In The Early Ming Dynasty

Huang Huai was an important minister in the cabinet from Yongle to Xuande in the early Ming Dynasty,and was a representative scholar of Taige style in the early Ming Dynasty.He served in the Five Dynasties of Hongwu,Jianwen,Yongle,Hongxi and Xuande.He had been in prison for 10 years in Yongle Dynasty,and returned to office at the beginning of Hongxi.He lived in his home for more than 20 years in his later years.He had a rich life experience.In literature,Huang Huai wrote many poetry collections,such as "Tuizhi Gao","Xingqian Ji","Ruj in Ji","Guitian Gao",etc.later generations compiled them as "HuangwenJiangongJie’an Ji" and "Xingqian Ji"Different poetry collections correspond to different life stages and literary thoughts,with rich connotation and various styles.At present,the academic circles pay less attention to Huang Huai,and the research results show the characteristics of conceptualization,simplification and fragmentation.Therefore,based on"Huanghuaiwenji",combined with Huang Huai’s family life and ideological origins,this paper makes a systematic and detailed study of his literary creationThe first chapter of this paper mainly examines Huang Huai’s family history and life achievements.This paper mainly discusses his life achievements from three aspects:political achievements,personal character and literary achievements,in order to outline his rich life experience and three-dimensional characters,and lay the foundation for the follow-up literature research.The second chapter mainly explores the ideological origins of Huang Huai,from Yongjia regional culture,Wenzhou Neo Confucianism in the Yuan and Ming dynasties,political environment of the times and literature worship in the early Ming Dynasty.The third chapter discusses Huang Huai’s poetry creation,which is divided into five sections,and the first four sections classify and appreciate the theme and content of poems in "jie’an Ji" and "Xingqian Ji,",and further summarize their styles and characteristics respectively.Specifically,the first section divides the poems in "jie’an Ji" into two categories according to the theme:responding and self chanting,and On this basis,the second section sums up the two main style characteristics of Huang Huai’s "jie’an Ji":Graceful and elegant,pure and upright.The third section also divides the poem into five categories according to the theme of Poetry:praising the emperor and nostalgia for the palace,reflecting on loyalty,recording the pain of imprisonment,missing relatives and friends,and feeling for oneself.On this basis,it summarizes the three artistic features of the poem compared with the former:Poems with unique perspectives;complex and rich spiritual world;insipid self-reliance while revealing true feelings.On the basis of the first four sections,the fifth section explores the overlap and alienation between Huang Huai’s poetry and Taige poetry of the same generation,trying to show the breakthrough and expansion between "Xingqian Ji" and Taige poetry of the same generation,and showing the deepening significance to Taige poetics.The fourth chapter comments on Huang Huai’s article creations.On the basis of classifying his prose according to its stylistic features,it focuses on the analysis of the theme content of his prefaces and postscripts,gifts and prefaces,inscriptions,mourning and miscellaneous notes,and explores the Taige style characteristics of Huang Huai’s prose.