A Textual Research Into The Category Of Poet's Host And Guest

This thesis aims to conduct a comprehensive and objective analysis of The Category of Poet's Host and Guest, making a textual research to family background, life story, making friends, poetry dissemination of some poets in The Category of Poet's Host and Guest, and distinguishing and collecting poetry for minority poets. Through these processes, the paper attempts to promote its further study. In the previous studies into the historical process of Chinese poetry genre, many researchers noted Shi Pin which was created by Zhong Rong and The Diagram of Jiangxi Poetry School which was created by Lv Benzhong, because the former created a precedent for Chinese poetry genre consciousness, and the latter set the culmination of the poetic voices and constructed the history of Chinese literature classic school of poetry. But they often ignored the more important part, which is, the The Category of Poet's Host and Guest which was created by Zhang Wei in the Late Tang dynasty. This theoretical writing has played a very important transitional role in the occurrence and development of Chinese poetry genre, and it implements the transition from the style to school in Chinese poetic voices. In this work, more than 80 poets in the late Tang dynasty were classified into six poetry genres, many of whom were very famous poets. Even those not well-known poets also enjoy a certain degree of fame or influence. The articles include three parts.The first part is a comprehensive theoretical analysis. This section is divided into five chapters: The first chapter conducts a comprehensive research and exploration to the author of The Category of Poet's Host and Guest, and ups and downs of the work; The second chapter, mainly through investigation of text form, identifies its subject and object of the origin and evolution of putting sentences map; The third chapter, mainly through the aesthetic orientation reflected by The Category of Poet's Host and Guest, examines the reality of the creation of the late Tang Dynasty poetry; The fourth chapter, after the introduction of Chinese poetry style theory, analyses the important transitional role in the evolution from the Shi Pin to The Diagram of Jiangxi Poetry School, and analyses the feasibility of the six schools. The fifth chapter discusses the value, significance and status of the The Category of Poet's Host and Guest, analyzing the literature value, the theory of value and meaning, the significance in the history of literature and position in the history of Chinese poetry theory development and impact.The second part is the research into some of the poets in The Category of Poet's Host and Guest, and it can be divided into five chapters:Chapter 6 is the research about GuangDaJiaoHua School, including Yang Cheng that was the ShangRuShi disciple, and six JiMen disciples; Chapter 7 is the research about High-Ancient School, including Li Yu, Liu Meng and Hu Youzhen that were the RuShi disciples, and Chen Run who is the Ji Men disciple; Chapter 8 is the research about QingQi and Masatada School, including Su Yu that was the ShangRuShi disciple, four RuShi disciples, Jia Dao and Li Xuan who were the ShengTang disciples and five JiMen disciples; Chapter 9 is the research about Legendary and Beauty School, including Wu Yuanheng that was the representative, and the other twelve disciples except Xu Hun that was the ShengTang disciple; Chapter 9 is the research about the poets of the other two Schools, including Li Ming that was the JiMen disciple of QingQiPiKu School, and Sima Tuizhi that was the ShengTang disciple of BoJieHongBa School.38 poets were researched in this part.The third part is the appendix, containing a list of the poets of six schools in The Category of Poet's Host and Guest, the Chronicle of Wu Yuanheng:the representative of legendary and beauty school in The Category of Poet's Host and Guest, and the textual research and chronology to the poetry and articles which is related to Wu Yuanheng:the representative of legendary and beauty school in The Category of Poet's Host and Guest.