Cui Literary Creation

Cui Zhiyuan, the most outstanding poet, scholar and litterateur in the Period of the Unified Xinluo, plays a key role in the evolutive history of Korean literature and the cultural communications between China and Korea, who is regarded as the initiator of Confucianism and the idealist philosophy in Korea. His poems, inscriptions and funeral orations and even other works have been worth lucubrating up to the present. The thorough and systemic study on the works by Cui Zhiyuan has been of great significance to the literature of late Tang Dynasty, the culture of ancient Korea and the cultural communications between China and Korea.Korean academe has been active in the study on Cui Zhiyuan and large numbers of research fruit has come into being. Comparatively, Chinese academe has been weaker in it. Since 1980's, along with the enhancement of the cultural communications between China and Korea, their academic communications have been increasingly frequent. Chinese academe has paid more and more attention to the study on Cui Zhiyuan. Many scholars have probed into the study and made out some valuable research. However, according to the present data, there are only about 30 published theses inland, which mainly treat of observing all his life, his lost poems and the historical value of his poems. Though there were some studies on Cui Zhiyuan's literature, they didn't go deep into it and haven't given a systemic form. Study on Cui Zhiyuan, the thesis for doctor's degree by Dr. Dang Yingping in Nanjing University, mostly emphasized on Cui Zhiyuan's official career, literature activities in Tang Dynasty and association with litterateurs in late Tang Dynasty, but didn't make any systemic research on his literature.Consulting the documents in ancient Chinese and Korea and domestic research fruit nowdays, this thesis starts with the text of Cui Zhiyuan's works to carry through the comprehensive study on Cui Zhiyuan's invention by means of traditional study and analyse methods of concrete evidence.This thesis can be roughly split into six chapters. Chapter One: Cui Zhiyuan's Life Story mainly states his epoch background and life experience in China; Chapter Two: Cui Zhiyuan's Thoughts discusses his ideologies of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism respectively and the all-inclusive of them three in his thoughts; Chapter Three emphasizes on the contents and characteristics of his poems and mostly analyzes his folk rhymes and Odes to Eulogy; Chapter Four expounds Cui Zhiyuan's Two Women's Tomb, such a controversial novel from the view of author, spread and variation, and noumenon study. About the study on Cui Zhiyuan, most scholars pay attention to his poems only, even there are a few articles on his prose, none of them care about the literature value of his prose. So Chapter Five just enters into the thoughts and artistic features of his prose, which aims at filling a vacancy. Chapter Six summarizes Cui Zhiyuan's status and impact from the view of his poems and prose, his influence in Korea, China and even in the cultural communications between China and Korea.Based on the others' research, the author puts forward his own points of view...