A Textual Research Into Jinglingbayou

In the literary circle of Nan Dynasty,nobody was more successful and influential than Jinglingbayou.Xiao Ziliang,the king of Jingling,was not famous for literature,but he loved it,received men of letters,organized literary activities,which have promoted the prosperity of literature of Nan Dynasty.In the second year of Yongming of Qi Dynasty(A.D.484),the king of Jingling went to Xidi to enroll men of letters. Seventy-four literati came to Xidi and hence constituted the largest literary group in the literary history of China.Among them,Xietiao,Wangrong,Shenyue,Xiaoyan,Xiaochen, Renfang,Fanyun and Luchui were the most eminent ones and known as Jinglingbayou. Jinglingbayou were the most outstanding writers in the literary world of Nan Dynasty. Few people,however,do researches into them.This thesis is the first comprehensive textual research into Jinglingbayou,including their life stories,their making friends,the redetermination of the time when their works were writen,the supplement of their works and their important contribution in literary histiry.And it consists of three parts.Part one is concerned with Jinglingbayou and Xidi literati organization.The author proves that Xidi literati organization is composed of seventy-four people.Besides,the he also investigates the approximate time they entered Xidi and their literary activities.As the most remarkable ones among Xidi literati organization,Jinglingbayou helped to bring about the "new changes" in the literature of Qi and Liang Dynasties with their excellent literary creation and thus has made indelible contributions to Chinese literature.Part two makes a textual research into the life stories of Jinglingbayou.It is made up of eight chapters,fifty-five papers.Chapter one is about Xietiao's life story,including the time he acted as Suijunwangwenxue,the places he visited in Xuancheng,the whole process of his tenure of offices in Xiangzhou,which has filled the gaps in research into life.Chapter two is about Wangrong's life story.It investigates Wangrong's family tradition,official career and making friends.It accounts for the origin of the tragedies in his life,reveals the deeds throughout his life thoroughly and exactly and expounds his communication with ninteen people.Chapter three is about Shenyue's life story, including the time he acted as Fengchaoqing,Yushizhoncheng,andTaiziyouweishuai,his whereabouts in Dongyang,his not-having-been-to-Mountain Tongbai of Tiantai in the first year of Yongtai and his making friends with seventy-one persons so as to arouse people's more attention to the study of Shenyue's life story.Chapter four is about the life story of Xiaoyan,emperor of Liang Dynasty,consisting of his pedigree,who his father is, his whereabouts before he ascended the throne,his crave for Buddhism,his admire for literature after he was throned and his making friends with sixty-four people.All these have revealed many insoluble mysteries in Xaioyan' life.Chapter five is about the life story of Renfang.It investigates his birthplace,the time he mourned over his parents' death acted as Yushizhongcheng,his whereabouts in Zhejiang province and his contact with twenty-seven people,which makes up the inadequacy of previous study.Chapter six is about Xiaochen's life story.It is the first time to research his life story.It investigates the time of his birth and death,his official career and his communication with fifteen people.Chapter seven is about Fanyun's life story,which is first textual research into his official career and his communication with other people.Chapter eight is about Luchui's life story,which is also the first textual research of Luchui's official career and his contact with others.Part three consists of four appendixes.It is made up of eighteen papers.Appendix one is concerned with the redetermination of the time when their works were writen on the basis of the combination of his own research and previous ones.Appendix two is a chronological table of Jianglingbayou,which is the outcome of the integration of the author's new research with previous ones and which lays a foundation for future study. Appendix three is about the supplement and judgment of Jianglingbayou' works.The author supplements thirty-five works,finds thirty-eight works which just have titles and no contents.In addition,he also judges the truth value of twenty-four works.Appendix four is a corpus of research dada of Jianglingbayou.It is a collection of the author's reading notes,which may be helpful for future research on such a topic.