On ZhouMi,a Famous Author At The Turn Of Song Dynasty And Yuan Dynasty

Zhou Mi (1232—1298) was a famous litterateur and philologist at the turn of Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, who named himself Gongjin and Caochuang, Sishui Qianfu, Bianyang Laoren, and so on. He was erudite and had written many works. He had a definite position in the Chinese literature and historiography history for his great contributions on historiography theory, historiography composition, literature comment and the composition of poem and Ci-poem. It has typical significance to do some study on Zhou Mi, an outstanding representative of the adherent faction of Song Dynasty. Research on the individual writer can help us to clear up all his life, his thinking, his literature works and his historiography works, which showed his special charm. Besides, the surviving state and the composing state of the whole the adherent faction of Song Dynasty can be revealed and the characters of the group can be grasped well through the research on Zhou Mi.The researches on Zhou Mi were focused on his Ci-poet composition in academia, while only few researches on all his life, his thinking, his poems and his notes (a type of literature consisting mainly of short sketches) were done. Based on the studies done before, Zhou Mi's curriculum vitae, works, friends, thinking, works with three different styles (poem, Ci-poem and note) were reviewed completely in order to describe his true panorama for the further study at the best in thisdissertation.The dissertation is divided into three major parts: introduction, main body and conclusion. Introduction:A brief introduction on the situation of the study conduced, the significance of such study, the anticipating goal and the study methods were given. The different views on the died date of Zhou Mi in academia were analyzed carefully, then the view of Xia Chengtao that Zhou Mi died in 1298 was adopted. Main Body:This part includes seven chapters.Chapter 1: The review of Zhou Mi's curriculum vitae and his works. The first section checked his descent. The native place, the names and alias of him were discussed in the second section. The whole life of Zhou Mi were divided into three stages: young childhood, accompanying with his father who was on his official duty outside; the middle age, being an official outside; the old age, composing, and all his life could be seen completely in the third section. Zhou Mi's works were analyzed carefully combined his works' catalog in the fourth section.Chapter 2: The situation of Zhou Mi's friends. Zhou Mi's friends were divided into five kinds, officials, Ci-poets, poets, scholars and the other. The situations of his five kinds friends were mainly studied as individual section, respectively, in order to describe the each visage and the same trend of the adherent faction of Song Dynasty with the center of Zhou Mi.Chapter 3: Zhou Mi's thinking. The philosophy thinking of Zhou Mi was discussed in the first section. In this section, the complex relationship between Zhou Mi's ideology and Confucian school of idealist philosophy of the Song and Ming dynasties were mainly discussed, besides, the extreme views about Zhou Mi's works were analyzed. The historiography thinking of Zhou Mi was assayed in the second section. Compared with other writers, the historiography thinking of Zhou Mi specially got head because he was a great unofficial history writer. The literatureideology of Zhou Mi was reviewed in the third section. He brought much positive and enlightened suggestion forward and led the right developing direction of literature aimed at the disappointed literary world. The lost country feeling of Zhou Mi was discussed in the fourth section. Zhou Mi lived in seclusion till death after Song Dynasty was conquered, which showed his grand nation integrity. The reason why the adherent faction feelings appeared was analyzed studying from the adherent faction of Song Dynasty. As to Zhou Mi, his nation integrity feelings were examined from his works and his association with other adherent faction. The discussion in this section did help to the study on the forming of adherent faction of Southern Song Dynasty and their thinking state.Charter 4 and Chapter 5: The review of Zhou Mi's notes. Zhou Mi was looked as the top one of the unofficial history writers in Southern Song Dynasty. His works had not only rich contents but also high literature value, which were the important component of the notes of Song Dynasty.Chapter 4: Zhou Mi's notes and the origin were introduced in the first section. Besides, the intention of his notes and the source of the literature in his notes were summarized and were divided into two kinds, historical materials and literature, according to the contents, which were addressed in the second and the third section in detail. The review of the finished time, editions, contents and the comments of his each works were given, then the contents and the value of the each works were assayed from the two parts, historical materials and literature.Chapter 5: The complete arrangement of Zhou Mi's notes from the view of doing textual research. The historical materials value of his notes was reviewed from the important historical facts, characters, folk-customs, arts, literature and fable legends in the first section. The value and influence on the afterworld of his notes were given from citing value, collating value, compiling value and afterworld composition in the second section. Compared the written by others, the mistakes in Zhou Mi's notes were corrected and got several pieces of lost articles by clearing the philosogy up in the third section.Chapter 6: The reviewing of the Ci-poem composition of Zhou Mi. Textual research on the edition origin of his Ci-peotry anthology was done firstly, then the research status was described in the first section. The value of his Ci-poems was confirmed. While, there were always two different views on the adscription of his ci-poems, ascribing to the faction of Zhou Bangyan or the faction of Jiang Kui. The contents and the art styles of Zhou Mi's Ci-poems were analyzed again in this section, then I agreed the second view that his Ci-poems were ascribed to the faction of Jiang Kui. A brief check of the famous Ci-peotry anthology, Yue Fu Bu 77, of which Zhou Mi took part in the composition, was done and the different views on it were given, besides, the history meaning of Ci-poems was represented in the second section. The discussion about Jue Miao Hao Ci edited by Zhou Mi was finished in the third section. Based on the analysis of editing background of Jue Miao Hao Cu the spreading, contents, values and influences of Jue Miao Hao Ci were discussed.Chapter 7: The review about the poem composition of Zhou Mi. His poems were summarized in the first section. The edition origin of his peotry anthology was checked firstly, then the composting background and the contents of his poems were analyzed and got a piece of uncomplete poem. The styles and the art features of his poems were addressed in the second section. The poetic opinions of Zhou Mi were introduced in the third section. On poems, Zhou Mi emphasized on the satirized function, and agreed the poetic route to study more. Besides, he canonized the poem meaning harmonious with nature, emphasized the current affairs influences on poems and endorsed the composing means to use literary quotation. All such opinions in Parnassus at that time had lively pointing and advancing meaning. The problems of the review and orientation of Zhou Mi's poems were discussed in the third section. Based on the complete reviewing of his poems, the ubiquitous common appraising in academia were analyzed and corrected. The conclusionBased on the whole study on Zhou Mi in the main body, his works were summarized and his great contributions to literature and historiography wereaffirmed completely in the conclusion. Zhou Mi's achievements in literature could be the model of the writers at the turn of the song dynasty and yuan dynasty sufficiently. The spirit style and features of the adherent faction in Song Dynasty and the characters of the Song Dynasty literature were shown in his body. The whole study on Zhou Mi could do help to find out the features of the literature works and unofficial history works of Song Dynasty deeply, and brought a good example and particular window to study the the adherent faction of Song Dynasty.