| Cheng chen (1806-1864,Tzu-yin;TZU-WENG),a native of Tsun-yi, Kweichow province,was a former second degree candidate in the provincial examination in Dao Guang and had been nominated as a minor education offial in several counties in Kweichow.During his life,he lived in poor, and spent almost all his time on his study in his hometown,which is a very remote place in southwestern china.However, his extraordinary talent made him very successful in many acedemic fields, such as the study of Confucian classics, the explanations of words in ancient books, poems and proses, paintings and caligraphies.So, he was recorded in the Draft of Qing Dynasty Scholars Biography, and was known as "the Southwest Confusianist".Although he himself did not think much of poems writing, his peotry anthology, Ch'ao-ching-ch'ao shih,was highly praised and even regarded as the poet laureate of Qing Dynasty.But, during the second half of the 20th century, he was labeled to the "Sung poem school" and underestimated for a long time.In the meantime, his 900 poems were rarely known by the people.Here I would try my best to outline his rough life, to unscramble his inward world, to investigate his poetic practice, and finally give him a position in both the Parnassus of Qing Dynasty and the whole history of chinese classic Poetry.The mainbody of this thesis is composed of such chapters below:The Introduction outlines the history of the study of Cheng chen's poetry, and points out the insufficiency in these study,through which I can lay my emphases in my research.In Chapter One, through documentary investigation, I describle the whole life of Cheng Chen, and dipartite it into four periods, that is, the hardworking boyhood, the unappraciated youth, the rushing and poor middle age, and the destitute and homeless late years.At the same time,I especially pay attention to the particular mentality of those periods above so as to understand Cheng chen's personality and poetry. In Chapter Two, through the interpretation of Cheng Chen's poetry, I try to find out his secrete cultural life and noble personality charm.As I point out, Cheng chen has spent his whole life in practising the confucius ethics and finally made himself a scholar who combines profoundity with virtue; in the mean time, he also has many personalities rarely know by the people.Besides, this chapter deals with Cheng Chen's uncommon achievements in many art areas.In Chapter Three, I focus on the poetic art of Cheng Chen by analyze the poetic theroy and theme, the style and origine, and the achievements and position of his poetry.As I point out, Cheng Chen's poetic thoery is full of subject consciousness and initiative spirit.And his poetic themes are so rich and varied that they can almost cover all the respect of the social life at that time. Last but not the least, the style of his poetry can be described as the combination of fantastical and easy, and he learned from different previous great poets while adding his own feeling to establish his own style.So, finally he made himself the prince of poets in the late Qing Dynasty.
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