"Shen Yue's Poems And Ren Fang's Bi"-A Comparative Research On Shen Yue And Ren Fang

There was a popular saying of "Shen Yue's Poems and Ren Fang's Bi" in the literary circle of the Qi and Liang of Nan Dynasty.Shen Yue was one of the important exponentials of the YongMing Phonology Theory,while Ren Fang was the representative "Bi" writer under the context of the separation of "Wen" and "Bi",and both were the pivotal celebrities leading the evolution of literary tidal current.Via the comparative research of Shen Yue and Ren Fang,this dissertation tries to apprehend the status of the literary circle of Qi and Liang from a new angle,as well as elucidate the important problems of the YongMing Phonology Theory and the differentiation of"Wen" and "Bi" much more deeply.Thanks to the same historical backdrop and cultural context,Shen Yue and Ren Fang shared a lot of similarities in their experience,systems of ideas and literary conception.They both won an awfully fine reputation as eponymous writers in the literary world.Nevertheless,Ren and Shen keep their own domain of "poems" and "Bi" respectively,and they both had long suits and shortcomings.Shen Yue was good at poetizing.He and Xie Tiao together with someone else, brought up the YongMing Phonology Theory,which holds "choosing feet via the four tones of classical Chinese phonetics and harmonizing rhythm via avoiding the eight fault" as the primary content.They actively practiced this theory in their new five-word poems,and formed an aesthetic ideal of the cadence of fine poems just like the beautifulness of pills.Ren Fang didn't have an outstanding reputation of poetizing,but he was also zealous in writing poems.By analyzing Ren Fang's five-word poems,we can detect that he had a unambiguous cognition of the YongMing Phonology Theory.Nevertheless,this was not what Ren Fang's interested in.He deliberately created poems with literary quotations and the resulting erudite and elegant style is totally different from Shen Yue's poems which attach much importance to phonology theory and flowery language,bringing on a vivid difference between "Poet's poems" and "Learner's poems".In virtue of the comparative research,we could comprehend the aesthetic character of Shen Yue's poems as the contemporary model much more deeply,thus having a intuitionistic knowledge of the leading composing trend of Qi and Liang's Parnassus.The practical writings like Zhang and Biao and Zhao and Gao of the Nan Dynasty were inclined to be written in the form of parallel prose.In the Nan Dynasty,the style of practical writing,for instance the rescripts,were mostly come under the category of "Bi"."Bi" was a prominent temporary concept in the literary realm of the Nan Dynasty,which was the outcome of the subtle development of writing styles and the widely application of the art of parallelism in the essays.Zhu Yi Xin together with someone else deemed that Shen Yue and Ren Fang's status in the history of the parallel prose is just like that of Li Bai and Du Fu in the history of poems.The articles composed by Shen Yue and Ren Fang pay much attention to literary quotations and flowery language.Ren Fang's Bi involved heavy and complicated literary quotations,thus the style was inclined to be graceful but subtil.On the other hand,the words and expressions of Shen Yue's Bi were clear and gentle,making the style behaved graceful and elegant.Their writings both belonged to the Yong Ming new literary form.The reason for Ren Fang's Bi gaining a much more excellence reputation is that Ren Fang appended more fresh factors in his productions.At that time, there was also another genre in the literary world which was delegated by Pei Ziye,who was characterized by supporting archaism.They antagonized the Yong Ming new literary form by following the ancients' heels.However,the new style represented by Shen Yue and Ren Fang steered the current of literary development and paved the way for Xu Ling and Yu Xin to arrive at the culmination of parallel pose in the Six Dynasties."Shen Yue's poems and Ren Fang's Bi" is an acknowledged critical standard and evaluation system in the Nan and Bei Dynasty literary world,and steered the pivot of the literary development and critical pattern of the Nan and Bei Dynasty in its middle and later phase."The third brother's Bi and the sixth brother's Pomes" brought forward by Liu Xiaochuo,which just presented itself under the frame of reference of "Shen Yue's poems and Ren Fang's Bi'.Xiao Gang deemed Xie Tiao and Shen Yue's pomes,as well as Ren Fang and Lu Chui's Bi as the best writings.The hidden context was that he expected to correct the declining trend of writing by the criterion of "Shen Yue's poems and Ren Fang's Bi".In the Bei Dynasty,the monarch of Ji Yin compared Wen Zisheng,who was the classic litterateur in the Bei Dynasty,with Shen Yue and Ren Fang.Besides,Xing Shao and Wei Shou started the dispute between following Shen Yue or Ren Fang because of their different literary preferences and writing inclinations.They had a good many backers respectively,thus the controversy about who was better between Shen Yue and Ren Fang was much debated in the Bei Dynasty.Shen Yue and Ren Fang established the apotheosis in the contemporary domain of poems and Bi."Shen Yue's poems and Ren Fang's Bi" was also popular in the form of critical criterion and evaluation system at given period.The comparative research on Ren and Shen aims to expatiate the character of "Shen Yue's poems" and "Ren Fang's Bi" as models much more deeply,thus better understanding the primary aesthetic tendency and writing current in the literary world at that time.