Research On Lu You's Essays

The research on Lu You's essays is relatively weak link in Chinese ancient literature. On the basis of the predecessors'research, I will make a comprehensive discussion on the various styles of Lu You's essays, such as prefaces, postscripts, narratives, documents, inscriptions, notes, history prose letters, and so on. On the basis of this, I will take a thorough inquiry into the thought tendency, mental state, or writing psychology of the Lu You's essays and try my best to reveal its aesthetic creation and value by applying text research methods and some new theory as well as politics, personology and psychology, etc.LuYou was patriotic and sorrowed people, and so this was the most obvious characteristics of his essays. Crying out for restoring Zhongyuan and unifying the motherland, inspiring the morale of the people, eulogizing soldiers, denunciating the treacherous traitorous, all these contents proliferated various style of LuYou's essays. Of course, except that, there was a wealth of information in the essays, such as warm praise for country landscape, wonderful sentiments on poem, ci, calligraphy, painting, the strong feeling on the world, even good recall of his old romances, etc. These contents was different from those of his loving motherland and sorrowing people, and so this revealed that as a literati, for a long time by China's feudal traditional culture, Lu You's exquisite and rich inner world, and sincere, warm feelings, shining brilliance of humanity.LuYou's essays had its own characteristics in the arts.First of all, Lu You's essays mostly had specific writing objects and demonstrated the true contents, and rarely had impending ideas, literally wrote out. He wrote Times and Times image, especially his almost the ubiquity of patriotism, that's such a touching feeling! Lu You expressed feelings truly in his essays, he always faithfully wrote about his own circumstances, thoughts, mood and the relationship with things outside. It is very hard to do so.Secondly, Lu You's essays had distinctive style feature.If the characteristics of ancient Chinese essays can be summarized as sophisticated organization and short form, we can as well say Lu You's essays, on the whole, had these features. Lu You's essays mostly started with approachable place, sensible specific things and some sense. Moreover, carefully observing, repeatedly thinking, LuYou made these materials fused in his heart and penned. He also took the trouble to modify. So these words out from the bottom of his heart were very brief but meaning. Furthermore, Lu You once districted"weinan in collection", this made clear that his stylistic consciousness was very strong. Of course, his documents appeared some formalist due to the official stylistic bondage. But LuYou could always take an active attitude, and with his own creation practice to promote stylistic breakthrough bondage. So, although LuYou had no Han, Liu, Ou, Su's assertiveness, it also indicated that he had certain stylistic innovation ability.In the last place, LuYou was good at narration and description, particularly, good at delineating all kinds of characters. The most representative works was "lao xue an notes". LuYou shaped figures such as people with the lofty ideals, loyal ministers, good generals, treacherous court official, traitors, dignitaries, peddlers and menial servants, and so on. And that those characters'expression, actions and words stood vividly revealed on the paper, what is more, they were distinctive.Total up, LuYou's essays had genuine feelings, the truth, and remained more natural and concise.