Survey On The Suites Of Poems On History In Tang Dynasty

This thesis researches into the large-size suites of poems on history in Tang Dynasty. Anyhow, whether in the past or at present, the researches related to this subject are not very abundant or even scarce, which are obviously regrettable for the circles concerned.This thesis consists of nine chapters with textual researches as well as expounding. Based on the research fruits available now, this thesis tries to innovate something new to some degree.Chap.l is an introduction. This chapter briefly traces back and conducts a boundary survey of the forms, styles and types of the poems on versifying the historic events, meditating on the past time, sightseeing the places of historic places and versifying the past time. It also makes a brief introduction of the suites of poems on history in Tang Dynasty and reviews the situation present on the researches concerned with the poems on history.Chap.2 explores and analyzes the poems of the Ode of Nobel Men and Fourteen Poems at Sightseeing the Places of Historic Interests. Wu Yun, the author of these poems, is the best poet among those who write suites of poems on history in Tang Dynasty. He wrote in a Taoist scholar's way and his poems are filled with thick Taoist flavor. His poems not only manifest the author's individual emotion and ideal but also reflect the features of his time.Chap.3 first makes textual researches into two questions in all the life of Zhao Xia. Then it expounds the remnants, the characters and the characteristics ofAnnalistic Poems in Reading History. This works is written for the formative education. Concerned with the styles and forms of the suites of poems on history, Annalistic Poems in Reading History may be rated as a pioneering work in the history of the study of formative education (Mengxue ). However, it failed at the end and the reason why it failed is taken as the key point of this chapter.Chap.4 and 5 make textual researches into the deeds in all the lives of Hu Zen and Zhou Tan together with their Poems on History. These two chapters are the most fruitful in the whole thesis. Limited by the scarcity of the references available, we do not know much about the deeds in all the lives of Hu and Zhou, nor do we know about those very clearly. Therefore the author first finds out the references concerned and make textual researches into the origin and the notes-taken version of Poems on History. Then the author discusses Poems on History''?, influence to the creation in the historic scripts in Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty and the historic novels in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. Apart from that, the author expounds the relationship between Hu and Zhou's Poems on History and the ancient study of formative education (Mengxue). These aspects were neither often expounded nor completely discussed in the past.Chap.6 and 7 first make textual researches into the deeds in all the lives of Wang Zun and Sun Xuan-yan and work out some fruits. Then the author analyzes the features of creation and the artistic levels of Jueju (a traditional type of Chinese poetry) on history.Chap.8 ascertains and classifies the suites of poems on history written by poets in Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. Many of these suites of poems have been lost as the time going by. By doing this we can partly see that writing large-size suites of poems was a common practice among the poets of that time.Chap.9 expounds additionally the suites of poems in versifying Confucian classics and philosophical writings and miscellaneous works influenced by the suites of poems in versifying history.