The Study Of The North-South Literary Integration In Jin-Sui Period

Jin Sui Period (316-589)is the confrontation period between the North and the South Regime of the great unification of Two Han Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties. At this time, the sharp differentiation between northern and southern literature highlighted their evident and significant differences. Simultaneously, there also began a new round of North-South integration process. In this article, the writer stands at the period of Jin Sui, taking an overall view of the North and the South in exploring the process and revealing the law of the North-South literary integration. The whole text is divided into seven chapters and the main contents are as follows.On the basis of the historical deposition of the differences between North and South of Jin Sui, the first chapter discusses the multifarious manifestations of the differences between the North and the South in the period of pre-Qin to Six Dynasties. Mainly based on the geographical and cultural perspective, this chapter discusses a few most iconic aspects of the differences between the North and the south, including the individual differences of the people; the divergences of custom; the differences of academic environment and religious tradition; the dialectic discrepancy and the diversity of arts and literature.From the literary starting point of the North-South integration in Jin Sui Period, the second chapter gives a discussion about the general trend of North-South literary integration in the time of pre-Qin to Western Jin Dynasty, which is exactly the prelude of the North-South literary integration in the Jin Sui Period. In order to explain the integration, this chapter first differentiates and analyses the general meaning of integration. And then discusses the North-South literary integration chronologically from pre-Qin Period, Two Han Dynasties, and JianAn Period to Western Jin Dynasty.The main content of Chapter Three is about the cultural aesthetic psychological basis of the North-South literary integration. Grounded on the culture base, the writer elaborates it from three aspects. The first one is the inheritance of the China legal system. The second is the continuation of literary tradition. And the third is the convergence of aesthetic psychology. Thus, the reason why the North-South literary integration process was continuing after the sharp differentiation in the confrontation period between the North and the South Regime could be clear.From the form of expression of the North-South literary integration in Jin Sui Period, the fourth chapter talks about the exchange, interaction and integration of the North-South literature after the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The exchange and interaction of North-South literature is a form of integration. There are a lot of exchanging ways in the North-South literature, and this chapter mainly discusses the exchange brought by the diplomatic envoys and caused by the migration of literati and intellectuals. As the migration greatly promotes the North-South literary integration, the writer selected three groups of characters (Wang Su and Xiao Zong; Wang Bao and Yu Xin; Xu Ling and Yan Zhi Tui) which played an important role in the process of the North-South literary interaction to discuss.In Chapter Five, with an eye on the propulsion characteristics of the North-South literary integration, the writer mainly discusses the North-South literary integration process within the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties. It starts with the explanation of the meaning of the North-South literary integration, and then discusses it from literary creation and literary theory. In term of creation, the significance lies in the Southern Dynasty's inheritance and further development of the literary tradition of Han, Wei, as well as Western Jin Dynasty. From the respect of theory, it reveals the implied idea of the North-South literary integration in the literary theories of elegance and simplicity in Qi-Liang Dynasties.From the viewpoint of the evolution course of the North-South literary integration, the primary coverage discussed in Chapter Six is the North-South literary integration process within the Northern Dynasty. It begins with the explanation of the meaning and significance of the North-South literary integration. In Northern Dynasty, the North-South integration goes hand in hand with the national integration of Hu and Han. The literary integration presents different situations in different history periods. Based on the time period, this chapter is divided into three parts in discussing the integration process. The first part is about the decline of the northern literature, and the North within the South, which refers to partial North-South integration. Then the second part discusses the Hanization of Northern Wei Dynasty and the speed-up of the North-South integration of literature and culture within the North. The main content in the last part is, with the aggrandizement of the influence on the northern literature given by the southern literature, the North-South literary integration is further strengthened in the period of Northern Qi and Northern Zhou Dynasty.Finally, in the last chapter, with a view to the end-result of the North-South literary integration, the writer expounds the North-South literary integration process from Sui to the Glorious age of Tang Dynasty. The structure of this chapter is as follows. First, the writer gives an explanation of the North-South integration in the situation of Great unification in Sui Dynasty. After that, with her discussing about the conflicts and integration of the northern and the southern literature of Sui Dynasty, the further literary integration of the North and South from the Early Tang to the Glorious age of Tang Dynasty is explained. With all the elaboration above, the continuation and results of the North-South literary integration in Jin Sui Period are fully showed.