Southern Song Dynasty Methodism Ci

In the history of Song Ci, the fourty years from 1224 to 1264 was a special precipitation and development period after a peak of Ci history. Different from the innovation and development of the florescent period of Ci world, the main contribution of Lizong Ci World was lies in inherits and summarizes. Wu Wenying and Liu Kezhuang were the most two outstanding Ci writiers in this period. The Temple Ci writers and Jianghu Ci writers were representatives of Lizong Ci World. Their works represented the literature thought of function and aesthetic value, respectively. Lizong Ci World presented a kind of Multi-dimensional pattern. On the basis of above discussion, the dissertation tries to interpret and describe the history, cultural and literary from multiple perspectives, and gives the original state of Lizong Ci world.In Chapter One, we discuss the historical background of Lizong period from politics and economy, academic ideological trend, and mentality of writer, together with the discussion of literature overview in Lizong period.In Chapter Two and Three, we class Ci writers in Lizong Ci world into two groups: Temple Ci writers and Jianghu Ci writers. Firstly, we describe the basis of classification and the community characteristics of the two groups. Then, we overview the creation tendency, stress the obvious characteristics of each group. Temple Ci writers followed Xin Qiji and advocated Neo-Confucianism, while Jianghu writers maintained nature of Ci and studied ways of Ci writing. Finally, we pay more attention to two outstanding Ci writiers: Liu Kezhuang and Wu Wenying.In Chapter Four, we summarize the overall characteristic and the Ci history position of Lizong Ci world, and discuss them from three aspects: creation, theory and selected works. The creation in this period presented a multi-dimensional pattern, which was characterized by the status of coexist, alteration and fusion among three styles of Xin Qiji, Zhou Bangyan, and Jiang Kui. The theories in these forty years were rich, which represent the thought tendency of compatibility. The selected works, from "Huaan Ci Selected Works" and "The Spring Snow" to "The Exquisite Ci Selected works", the method of different period futher confirm the evolution process of the Ci though during the late Song Dynasty.