Study Of Wang Jinggong Style

Wang Anshi is not only a great political reformer and thinker in Chinese feudal society but also a unique litterateur,one of the Eight Major Schools of Tang and Song Dynasties,and the great master who created a new generation of poetry. His literary talent has always been appreciated,and even his political opponents had to recognize his literary and artistic achievements,especially his poetry. It can be said that Wang Anshi's poetry has been the world's attention for a long time. Since the famous historian Li Bi commented on his poems in the Song Dynasty.In mordern times, Liang Qichao wrote biography of Wang Anshi, affirming his literary and poetic achievements. Since liberation, more and more scholars have paid much attention to Wang's poems and they have got great achievements and had a deep and clear understanding of Wang's artistic features.However, I believe that, for such a poetry giant as Wang Anshi, the current study, especially "Wang Jinggong style", is insufficient has not penetrated deeply. There are still disputes about the connotation of "Wang Jinggong style", including four theories, namely articles' style theory, later couplets theory, poetic style theory and centonical poems theory. As far as I am concerned, the so-called "Wang Jinggong style" refers to Wang Anshi's poetic artistic features, generalizing his poetic particularity and style rather than later Quatrain, poetry or cento only, not only about his artistic style, presentation technique but his thoughts rather than form or content only.In spite of Wang's varied styles and his possession of diversification and individuation, the style of exquisiteness, peculiarity and circumbendibus runs through Wang's poetic creation, which reasonably resolves the contradictions of exquisiteness and naturalness, wateriness and peculiarity, superficialness and circumbendibus, plainness and elegance, insipidity and solemness. He mingles these styles up, finds their best bounding point and produces his artistic feature which distinguishes from Dongpo Style, Valley Style and Chenzhai Style, and forms his unique Jinggong Style.Prolegomenon mainly introduces the reason, purpose and significance of the topic and the overview of the current research on Wang Anshi's poetry,especially the study of "Wang Jinggong style" and analyzes and explains the connotation and definition of "style" and establishes the theory foundation of "Wang Jinggong style". Firstly, it is a new angle and meaningful to study the poetry in the Song Dynasty from the angle of styles, the prosperity of which was one important phenomenon at that time. Secondly, Wang's poetry opens the new look of poetry in the Song Dynasty, signals and links Song Style's formation, and therefore has great significance in the developing history of the poetry in the Song Dynasty. Thirdly, nowadays the studies on Wang's poetry still need penetrating into, especially understanding and clarifying Wang Jinggong Style, which has great significance in combing the venation of poetry's development. Meanwhile, it introduces the reviews on Wang's poetry, especially on Wang Jingong Style and analyzes the definition and connotation of style and bases the analysis of Wang Jingong Style.The text is divided into four chapters.Chapter I deals with the social and cultural backgrounds on which "Wang Jinggong style" came into being.It analyzes the main features and developing rules of the Parnassus in the Song Dynasty,Wang Anshi's life experiences and ideas as well as his poetic view,and explores the root of "Wang Jinggong style".Chapter II reviews the use and features of some artistic skills like couplet and allusions, meantime, takes his cento as an example, analyzes its arts of couplets and allusions, and presents the poems' individuation features of exquisiteness and elegance.Chapter III discusses Wang's pursuit of both natural beauty and circumbendibus beauty in his poetic creation, analyzes how his poems are created originally and how concocts the two different styles of wateriness and peculiarity, and displays its individuation feature.Chapter IV deplores that solemness is a spiritual appearance which runs through Wang's poetry and an essential reason that forms Wang's poetic style of circumbendibus, analyzes the poetry's devious description technique from three aspects of holding thing to speech will, natural imagery and Buddhist interests, discusses its artistic effect and implied, pleasant aftertaste and presents its individuation feature of circumbendibus.Innovation and significance of the dissertation is as follows.Firstly, the dissertation gives an analysis and illustration of Wang Anshi's poetic art, explores the artistic characteristics of his poetry, and enriches and deepens the study of Wang Anshi's poetic theory,which is a new perspective of the current study of the literature in the Song Dynasty.Secondly,using exploring "Wang Jinggong style" as the background,the dissertation combs and elaborates Wang Anshi's poetic view and draws a new conclusion. For instance, Wang Anshi emphasizes poem's function of pragmatism (Jing Shi Zhi Yong),meanwhile,focuses on poem's artistic forms. Wang Anshi's poetic theory is consistent and continuous in his earlier and later stages. He emphasizes "moral standard" in poetic creation,stresses "neutralization beauty" in poetic art and pursues a perfect art realm of "natural beauty".Thirdly, through the analysis of "Wang Jinggong style",the dissertation makes a summary of the connotation of "Wang Jinggong style" and Wang Anshi's artistic features,brings forward some new ideas. For instance,"Wang Jinggong style" indicates Wang Anshi's poetic artistic characteristics,which is mainly reflected in his peotry's exquisiteness,peculiarity and circumbendibus rather than centonical poems. "Wang Jinggong style" is consistent and continuous in its style,not just confined in his later life. It is a unity of ideological nature,lyricism and artistic quality.Lastly,the dissertation deepens the cognition of Wang Anshi's poetry through the study of "Wang Jinggong style" and the analysis of his poetic artistic features. Meanwhile,it examines some regular phenomena of the development of the poems in the Song Dynasty and reveals the process of Song Style's formation,development and maturity.