A Study On Pan Zhi-heng

With the help of a thorough collection of relative materials, the thesis is trying to do a deeper research on Pan Zhi-heng systematically, and it is aiming at a breakthrough over the pre-researchers'achievements. The key points are as following:In Chapter one, the thesis focuses on Pan Zhi-heng's extraction and life research, and makes supplement by three new historical materials on the date of his death and whether he had been an official. From the newly discovered materials, the thesis fixed an Zhi-heng took part in the provincial examination in the year of Wan Li 24 for the first time and Pan altogether joined in the exams six times. The thesis also researches that Pan Zhi-heng organized different saloons in the scholars and theirs property and contents, so that we can read the life styles and the spirit of the scholars in late Ming Dynasty.In Chapter Two the thesis discusses the social intercourse between Pan Zhi-heng and others from three parts: by poem and prose, by music appreciating, by born place, in order that we can find out the scholars'intercourses in the year or Wan Li. The text mainly talks over the intercourse between Gong An Schools and Tang Xian-zu and how they influenced Pan Zhi-heng's ideology and literature invention.In Chapter Three the thesis describes the outline of Pan Zhi-heng's writings and presents the versions, contents and existence and lost. Most of his poems thought lost have been found kept in Japanese Zun Jing Ge library, Japanese Cabinet Library and Tai Bei Central library. The thesis roughly describes the outline of these precious literatures.In Chapter Four the thesis discusses Pan Zhi-heng's aesthetic theory which is rarely talked before. Pan Zhi-heng thought the literature in fact expressed the writers'opinion, which was as advanced as the literature claim believed by Li Zhi, Tang Xian-zu and Yuan hong-dao, and thus he built up his own literary system.In Chapter Five the thesis discusses his achievements in biography writing. And the famous actresses'and knight-errants'are analyzed thoroughly.In Chapter Six the thesis discusses three parts of Pan Zhi-heng's great achievements and contributions in the area of opera. In his writings abundant materials concerned with opera were conserved and he formed his unique criticism and the performance theory.