A Regional Study On The Group Writers Of Ci In The Early Southern Song Dynasty

In this thesis,by a method of combining philology,historiography and literature andby putting the group writers of Ci in the early Southern Song Dynasty in a specific socialand political background,the author studies the distribution trend and related activities ofthese groups writers of Ci.The author also discusses the influence between local cultureand groups writers of Ci,reciprocal relationship among different group writers of Ci.Thestudy of the topic will not only help us to understand the characters of Ci in the earlySouthern Song Dynasty,but also provides reliable facts in mastering the evolution directionof Ci in the early Southern Song Dynasty and later.The thesis includes five parts:The introduction part defines the scope of the study first.Then it introduces thecurrent situation of studying on group writers of Ci in Song Dynasty,the purpose andperspective of the study.In Chapter 1,the author studies the group writers of Ci in Taizhou and Huzhou inZhejiang province respectively.Group writers of Ci in Taizhou composed their works withstyle of responsorial.And their works showed two trends:one was led by Zeng Cun,whichstyled hedonism and flattering;the other was led by Cao Xun,which was characterizedwith Taoism,reflecting the influence by the Taoism culture in Tiantai.The group writersof Ci in Huzhou were deeply impacted by the local culture,who had tradition of poem,wine,responsorial and dreamed hidden and leisure life in their private home.Ye Mengde's"Songjiang Passion"and Cheng Yuyi's"Luoyang passion"represented two different waysof memorizing peaceful period in Northern Song Dynasty.Chapter 2 covers the study of the group writers of Ci in Jiangxi.The prosperousness ofJiangxi Ci has been always cared by people.Jiangxi was an active center in the earlySouthern Song Dynasty.The group writers of Ci in Qingjiang,which was led by XiangZiyin,included Ci writers from south and north."Wood Rhinoceros Passion"in Xiang's Ci,worship of Erlang God in Yang Wujiu's Ci and some customs like drinking tea,racing onmaking tea were all impacted by the Jiangxi local culture.The members of group writers ofCi in Shangrao and Linchuan had close connections with Jiangxi poem school.So therelationship between Jiangxi poem and Jiangxi Ci becomes an important part of thischapterIn Chapter 3,the group writers of Ci in Fujiang are studied.The group writers of Ci inFujian are divided into three regional subgroups:Fuzhou,Mingnan and Mingbei.Amongthem,the group writers of Ci in Fuzhou were most influential.This group was a politicallyanti-surrender group led by Ligang,Zhang Yuangan,Li Mixun.Most of them were belongto Ligang party.And Ye Mengde who was just assigned from central government at thattime joined them.The Emperor's relative Zhao Shizhun also joined and even organizedtheir social activities.This thesis also discussed the relationship between the prosperity ofQuanzhou and group writers of Ci in Mingnan.The characters of Confucianism and familytradition in group writers of Ci in Mingbei are also studied. Chapter 4 is about the study of group writers of Ci in Lingnan.The distribution ofgroup writers of Ci in Lingnan was kind of polarization.In the most developed areaGuangzhou and most underdeveloped area Hainan,there were activities of writers of Cirespectively.The Ci works composed by writers in Guangzhou were close related to dramaand dance,while the works by writers in Hainan were related to political demotion.Andgroup writers of Ci in Lingnan both had the character of lingnan flavour.Besides the above study as a whole,the author also does deep study in detail on somespecific issues.For example,the author verifies and completes detail study on XiangZiyin's activities,proofreads Yang Wujiu's work"Erlang God",studies the nick name"Taochan Old Man"of Yang Wujiu,examines the meetings between Zengji and L(U|¨)Benzhong,verifies and discusses the Ci writers in Zuiletang banquet and their responsorial,roots the close relationship between Cao Xun and Taoists in Ermei Mountain,studies Ciwriter Li Xiangzhi,explores and analyzes the author of Ci work"Hao Shi Jin",verifies thesocial activities of Li Guang in Hainan.The study corrects and amends previous studiesand author hopes her study to help clarify the facts and improve the study in Ci field.