Research On WangKaiYun' Anthologies And Comments About Tang Poetry

Wang KaiYun was the representative of the School of Six Dynasties of Han and Wei in the late Qing dynasty. But he not only studied the poetry in the six dynasties of Han and Wei, but also paid close attention to Tang poetry. He took pains to study on Tang poetry. Over fifty years he had complied three anthologies of Tang Poetry as well as commented on them several times. Based on his three anthologies-- the anthology of ten poets'poetries in Tang dynasty ,an anthology of Tang poetry (six volumes) and an anthology of Tang poetry (13volumes) ,we can conclude that Wang KaiYun's ideas on Tang poetry have changed. At first he focused on poetry of High Tang dynasty. But later he became to emphasize on poetry of Middle Tang dynasty.Wang KaiYun discussed about the development and characteristic of Tang poetry in his thesis. Above all, Wang KaiYun built up a developing history of poetry from the six dynasties of Han and Wei to Song dynasty. Furthermore he opened up a new kind of poetics, which focused on the natural beauty of poetry and the merit of poetry was judged by its artistic criterion but not Confucianism.We can figure out the special poetics of Wang KaiYun by comparing his poetics with other poems'poetics in the late Qing dynasty. Such as what were the main differences of poetics between Wang KaiYun and Deng FuLun, Zhang ZhiDong whose poetics were opposed to the school of Song Poetry? How did the poetics of Wang KaiYun was effected by the School of Song poetry? And were there any differences between the poetics of Wang KaiYun and the school of Song poetry? And so on.After all, Wang KaiYun, had an important influence on many poets in late Qing dynasties. And his main poetics is to focus on learning from the Tang poetry of the middle and late Tang dynasty.