The Family Cao Of Anqu And It's Literature

This paper made an overall research of family Cao of Anqiu, including their lineage, family members, writings, friends-making, responsory and literary relations. It solved the current difficulties which confused the researchers. That is the lineage of family Cao of Anqiu. This paper have done a comprehensive and detailed inspection of many family members and their writings, and made their friends-making and responsory clear emphasizing Cao Zhenji and Cao Shenji and others. Also, it researched their literary relations on the base of responsory, including giving-or-receiving, infuence and art style. This paper includes five chapters besides introduction and conclusion:Chapter One The introduction and preliminary study of Genealogy of Family Cao of Anqiu which was founded recently. Protract a brief family tree according to the genealogy so we solved the lineage problem of family Cao.Chapter Two Divide the family members who could be traced into four categories, including literature, uncorrupted officers and so on, referring all kinds of historical materials and Genealogy of Family Cao of Anqiu. Learn from each other and make it melt-cast if one family member was found in multiple sources.Chapter Three Research the writings of family Cao in detail according to various catalogues, historical and biographical materials. There are nearly one hundred kinds of writings of family Cao which could be traced. Most of these writings are literary works but many have been disappeared. This chapter introduces the writings that are still existed, including the editions, collections, and corrects some recording errors.Chapter Four Inspect their friends-making and responsory emphasizing Cao Zhenji and Cao Shenji and others, including the start, time and places, and factors that affected them make friends and so on. This chapter clarifies a number of facts and corrects many errors that some researchers made today.Chapter Five This chapter mainly examines the literary relations between Cao Zhenji,Cao Shenji and others and their changes in poetic style. It adopted a more broad perspective and not confined to the study of literary style and artistic characteristics, but also includes giving-or-receiving and the influence to the authors'literary creation. And it clarifies the current misunderstanding of many researchers according to the situation of friends-making and responsory.