The Acceptance Of Huang Tingjian's Poems In Early And Middle Qing Dynasty

Huang Tingjian's poems had been long depreciated in Yuan and Ming dynasties, however, in late Qing dynasty, they became extremely prevalent, having far-reaching influences. This essay utilizes the research methods of Philology, history of poetry and history of criticism, with reference of Western theories of acceptance, to profoundly marshals and states the acceptance of Huang's poems in early and middle Qing dynasty, probing into the turnaround course of Huang's poems from depreciation to prevalence.The fist chapter briefs on the acceptance of Huang's poems before Qing dynasty. The second chapter discusses the acceptance of Huang's poems in early Qing dynasty. Huang's poems didn't rise along with the rising of Song poetry, and was relatively cold-shouldered. This chapter investigates this poetic phenomenon and then made a case study on the acceptance of Huang's poems by such representative poets as Two Fengs, Wang Shezhen, Wu Zhizhen, Zhu Yizun, etc.. The third chapter discusses the acceptance of Huang's poems in middle Qing dynasty. At the turning of Yong Zheng's regime and Qian Long's regime, the acceptance of Huang's poems had preliminary breakthrough along with the rising of Zhe school and Xiu Shui poetic school. And then, Weng Fanggang and the Tong Cheng poetic school vigorously advocated learning from Huang's poems. In the later period of Jia qing's regime, Huang's poems had manifested a rising trend. This chapter elaborates on the acceptance of Huang's poems by Xiu Shui poetic school and Tong Cheng poetic school. The fourth chapter discusses Qing people's marshaling and printing of Huang's poetry anthology, mainly introduces the emendation achievements of such important versions as Ji Xiang Tang's version,Dian version,Shu Jing Tang version,etc. and pointed out the research value of Huang's poems at modern times. The remaining part investigates into the reason why there was a turnabout of acceptance of Huang's poems, and summaries the characteristics of acceptance of Huang's poems in early and middle Qing dynasty. The last part is the appendix, as a supplementing collection of the historical materials excluded in Fu Xuanzong's Compilation of material of Huang Tingjian and Jiangxi poetic school.The main creative points of this essay are: 1) It verifies the time of rising of Song poetry, emending and propelling the research by preceding scholars. And the discussion on the cold acceptance of Huang's poem in the rise of Song poetry unveils a poetic phenomenon that is neglected by the academic circle. 2) This essay investigates Zhu Yizun's course of accepting Huang's poems, proving that Zhu Yizun did learn from Song poetry especially Huang's poems in his late years. This has significant meaning in our better understanding Zhu Yizun's poetic thoughts and master the historical changes of Qing poetry. 3) Through investigating the Qing versions this essay the author discovers that many versions have important value of emendation and points out that owe to insufficient understanding of Qing versions of Huang Tingjian's poetic anthology, there exists dozens of mistakes in two contemporary versions. The ten odd poems collected from carved stones are not included in Quan Song Shi compiled by modern scholars. 4) This essay marshals the developing course of the acceptance of Huang's poems in early and middle Qing dynasty, and points out the reason for which Huang's poems became prevalent after middle Qing dynasty. This has certain meaning in helping us better understand the history of the acceptance of Huang's poems and the history of Qing poetry.