Researching On Yun Xi You Yi Of Fan Shu

Yun Xi You Yi was authored by Fan Shu, a scholar of late Tang Dynasty. The dissertation is focused on the research into Fan Shu and his Yun Xi You Yi, it can be divided into five chapters as follows:Chapter1 introduces the author's life, his motives, his ideological inclinations and the background to his work. Little of Fan Shu's life is known to us, but it is certain that he was still alive during the Era of Qianfu in the late Tang Dynasty. He didn't succeed in officialdom before his death and his only son died young. It is because he was captivated by the beauty of the nature and social customs, and he wanted to incarnate his aspirations that he named himself 'the recluse of Wu Yunxi'. When he was young, he traveled in Qing, Wu, Chu, Song, Shu ( the old names of places in China) and some other places. He knew Fang Gan, Lu Zhao, Li Huizheng, the devout Buddhist of Xuan Lang and Li Xianyong, and Li Xianyong prized him highly and argued that his failure was not due to the fact he was incompetent and he was not of integrity, but due to the fact that few celebrities knew his potentials. Promptly Yun Xi You Yi came into being in the middle of Tang Dynasty when literary sketches was popular among the scholars. It took him many years to sort out the integral information of the book, and it was publicized by his friends at their get-togethers. Fan Shu claimed in the preface of the book that he was influenced by He Ziran's Xu Xiao Lin and Wei Xuan's Liu Binke Ja Hua. In the book he expressed his attitudes and positions either by the titles of the book or subjective commentaries.Chapter2 discusses Yun Xi You Yi of different editions and the books, collections of novels and anthologies of essays edited in Song Dynasty. Yun Xi You Yi has two editions: the edition of three volumes, the edition of twelve volumes. The first edition, which is the father of the latter, retains the style of Tang Dynasty, and the more popular one is the edition revised by Xu Shaoqian. The latter is commonly seen to be the edition of Bai Hai. Out of Yun Xi You Yi forty-seven passages were included into Tai Ping Guang Ji. Most of the passages inherit the spirit and the theme of their source. However, Gan Zhu Ji, Lei Shuo, Shuo Fu, Tang Yu Lin, Lv Chuang Xin Hua, Tang Ren Shuo Hui, Long Wei Mi Shu, Yi Yuan Jun Hua and Jiu Xiao Shuo were revised and modified more or less to serve their authors' purport. Chapter3 is the debate on the author's feats in narration. Primarily, the hybrid of truth and untruth in narration features Yun Xi You Yi. Generally, in the book there are four ways of narration: the speeches of the characters are congruous with their actions, most of the speeches of the characters are in line with their actions, the speeches of the characters contradicts with their actions and the characters are of uncertainties. Secondly, the narration of Yun Xi You Yi is characterized by the device of clustering, that is, it is focused on the arrangement of materials by induction, analogy and contrast. Thirdly, the objectiveness of the book rests on the fact that no fewer of the stories and events in the book were quoted into official historic documentations, and some of them were cited in the literary sketches of high realism.Chapter4 is a probe into the fictions of the book. In Yun Xi You Yi, few of the fictions are found to be well plotted. Regardless of this, the author succeeds in the narration of every event, the design of key stories, and the use of suspensions and foreshadowing. Besides, in the book, the portrayal of characters through their speeches and their behaviors and the creation of the characters in some typical event are also deserving of our attention. All these contribute to the fact that it is repeatedly adapted into different styles of writing and borrowed into various anthologies.Chapter5 is an analysis of its poetic marvels. Firstly, the poetries in the book Yun Xi You Yi can be categorized into two types: the poetries for the sake of creation and those for the sake of application. Secondly, it is about the criticism of Fan Shu's poetries. He argues that poetry is the overflowing of spontaneous feelings. And he clearly states the ideas that poetry should be new-created, implicit and should be reposed. And also he considers that poetry is of significant difference in style because of different functions. Thirdly, the influence of poetry talks on it lies in the level poetic text and that its citations of the anthologies of poetry talks Shi Hua Zong Gui and Tang Shi Ji Shi. Above all, Yun Xi You Yi's records of the poetry creation of the literary men speaks for its significance in the history of poetry talks.