On Proses Of Western Han Dynasty

From the history of china, as the continuing of Qin Dynasty, Western Han Dynasty has seen a great change with a long history and lays the foundation of the Social and cultural in social organizations and cultural forms. As on of important expression, proses of Western Han Dynasty has made brilliant achievements and established a peak being valuable cultural heritage in the history of Chinese proses. But relative to the research of the mainstream literature-Han rhyming prose, attention of some of the western han dynasty looked very weak.With proses as its object and based on literary texts, this article surveys the proses of Western Han Dynasty from multiple angles that include cultural and political backgrounds of the time, literary styles, evolution track of literary theory, and literary review, etc, gives an overview of the proses by discussing their development, literary styles, artistic characteristics, literary spirits, and aesthetic features, and strives to keep as close to the reality as possible.The article consists of Introduction, Main body, and Conclusions. The Introduction mainly gives a summary of the history of research and the current situation in studying the proses of Western Han Dynasty and explains the significance and methods of the study.The Main body includes 8 chapters:Chapter One defines the concept of prose and the scope of this article, and discusses the enlightment and influence of the proses before Qin Dynasty on those of Western Han Dynasty.Chapter Two discusses the causes for prosperity of the proses of Western Han Dynasty from multiple facets in particular background, Such as the superpower of the big unification dynasty,the opening up in the ideological and cultural areas, Attention on talents from the royal emperor, the evolution of literary theory.Chapter Three analyzes the themes and tides represented by the proses in different periods of Western Han Dynasty. The proses will be divided into three development period. In Western Han Dynasty initial period, the regime was just made, how to draw the lesson from Qin dynasty and provide reference for new dynasty become a reality concern. Reflected in the literature creation, "reflection" literature enters the stage of history; With the social development wave, in the middle of the surges, literature grows in step with it, self-confidence of the Han dynasty empire penetrate in culture and literature. Reflected in literary creation, literature manifests "speak the mind " characteristic; Later, with the regulation of the court getting worse by the day, sensible people feel stressed and angryChapter Four divides the proses of Western Han Dynasty into 5 types, including official correspondence, letter, argumentation writing, biography, and essay, and displays the master works of all types and related achievements. Though in initial stage, many types of prose of Western Han Dynasty had reached a comparatively high level, which not only initiated new literary types but also made direct influence on later ages in writing techniques and styles, etc. With related authors and their works involved, the article casts its eyes on classification of literary types, and in an overall and subtle manner, it evaluates the position of the proses of Western Han Dynasty and their achievements in the history of Chinese proses.Chapter Five summarizes and analyzes the artistic features of the proses of Western Han Dynasty and discusses them in multiple aspects, such as their features in lyricism and rhyme, argumentation based on facts and quotations, flexible sentence constructions, and fluent and compact linguistic styles, etc.Chapter Six analyzes the literary spirit in the proses of Western Han Dynasty, and discusses their comprehensive spiritual outlook reflected in the people's spirit of concern, sense of forthright dissuasion, and mind of rationality.Chapter Seven explains the artistic characteristics of the proses in Western Han Dynasty, and analyzes their concept of aesthetics in majesty, personality, naturalness, and pragmatism. the proses in Western Han Dynasty doesn't limit the literary creation. the prose is plain and natural, showing broad mind, practical aesthetics spirit, and reflecting the constant pursuit of beauty in addition to the thinking of life force and beyond, and for the life sorrow and try and effort.Chapter Eight discusses the influence of the proses of Western Han Dynasty on later ages. After the announcement "Hundreds ousted, the dominant Confucianism" made by Emperor Han, confucianism is developed in literature.The spirit of Confucian thoughts become the important component parts of Chinese traditional culture, and purpose with which the literati writing essays. This chapter focuses on analyzing the relationship between the proses in western dynasty and the movement of ancient prose style in tang dynasty and on the impact on future generation in style and writing skills.Epilogue summarizes the whole text and puts forward the research direction of proses in Western Han Dynasty...