On The Anthologies Of Song Poetry In The Qing Dynasty

Anthology is one of the most important means for the transmission and the criticism of the literature works. It has become a hot topic recently and achieved a lot. However, the study on the Song Anthologies of the Qing Dynasty is still in a poor state, hence, it should be imposed much attention in future. The Song Anthologies of the Qing Dynasty are affected by many elements such as the policy, the economy, the zone culture, the book-storage, the publishing capacity, the literacy of the selectors and the demands of the readers, except that, they also have some relationship with the poetry writing ,the Poetry School and the Poetry Theories of the Qing Dynasty. The anthology played a critical role in the debate between Tang Poetry School and the Song Poetry School which was a conspicuous characteristic of the Qing Poetry. In this point, the study on the relationship between the anthology and debate will deepen the study of the Poetry Theory and the history of the literature criticism of the Qing Dynasty. Meanwhile, it will also benefit a lot for enriching the research of the history of Song Poetry and the Song Poetry Theory. This thesis will focus on the survey of the 70 Anthology exclusively by Song poets but selected in the Qing Dynasty, the causes and the main features of anthology edition, the relationship between Song Anthology and the debate between Tang Poetry School and the Song Poetry School, basing on the combined methods of documentary and critic. Of course, some very anthologies will be picked up as the examples, in order to mix up the macroscopic research and the microscopic study.The content of the preface contains the following three aspects, such as the subject that this thesis concerns, the present situation and the methods, the clue and the significance. In the first chapter, the thesis narrates the three periods of the development of Song Anthology, that's the developing period (the Song Dynasty), the declining period (the Yuan and Ming Dynasty) and the prime period (the Qing Dynasty). Then the thesis also tells the readers the reasons why there comes the unparallel situation. In the second chapter, it will analyze the main edition characters of the Song Anthologies of the Qing Dynasty. First and foremost, the selectors could obtain the poetry source by multiple means which could provide them ample source and let them make full use of them. So they could not only use the ways of buying, storing, borrowing, requesting, but also the ways of memorizing or basing on others'selections. Besides, there was the imbalance in the terms of the times and the areas of the publishing. In the terms of the times, the anthology came to its prime in the KangXi and QianLong period which took up 63 percent of the total number of the whole Qing Dynasty. The result stems from the situation of the early Qing Dynasty such as the two emperors focused much attention on the literature, the economy revived and prospered swiftly, the popularity of the song poetry and the scholars took to the writing in order to get ride of the persecuting. While in the terms of the areas, JiangNan relying on the two thirds of the total number of the anthologies became the key area of the Song Anthologies. This has much relation with its profound literature history. The flourish economy provided stable funds for the block-printers to publish the poetry. Some of the countless talents played the role of publisher, while the others became the main readers of the publication. Except those above advantages, JiangNan was also honored by its vast books of real quality and the publish industry, which gave the best sources and excel skills to the publishers. All of the above elements contribute to the flourishing of the publishing of JiangNan area.In the third chapter, the thesis probes into the causes of the edition, which can be summarized as four, that's the response to the argument between Tang Poetry Scholar and the Song Poetry Scholar; the aim to change the declining present currency with the help of the origin of the poetry; the guideline for the freshmen of poetry learning; the storage of documents. The Song Anthologies of the Qing Dynasty enhanced the relationship among the current of poetry, the utility and usage and the storage of the history, and meanwhile, the value of the criticism and documents are ascended. In the forth chapter, aiming to make clear of the situation of the debate between Tang Poetry and Song Poetry, the thesis will arrange the mutual relation between the debate of Tang Poetry and Song Poetry and the Song Anthologies that from Song Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. Comparing to other dynasties, the relationship of them in the Qing Dynasty was more intimate. The purposes of the Qing citizens were either praised the Song Poetry or praised the Tang Poetry, or praised the both. All in all their attitudes had something to do with the debate. So the selection became the special front to express their standpoints. Not until to the period of QianLong, did the scholars begin to accept both Tang and Song Poetry, realizing the disadvantage of the debate.In the fifth chapter, the thesis mainly does some research on certain important anthologies. That's in the first part, to reveal the trait of Wu Zhizhen's wholesome poetry ideas, namely, he sticks to the Song Poetry Theory but not repels the Tang Poetry Theory; to praise Lv Liuliang's contribution to the accomplishment; to display the editions of the Song Shi Chao the author have witted and to testify the time of selection of song shi chao of the San Yutang which came out no early than JiaQing period of Qing Dynasty. All of them are based on some relative documents. In the second part, the thesis will talk about the affection of the experience as an adherent of former Ming Dynasty (the person didn't submit to the new emperor, living in the period that a new dynasty replaced the old one) of Pan Wenqi to his poem writing who is the author of the Song Shi Chuo Li Ji and his criticism ideal that respected the Tang Poetry while looked down upon the Song Poetry. In the third part, the paper mainly casts spotlight on the following content: listing the editions of the Song Shi Bie Cai Ji; obtaining the idea that Zhang Jingxing's hometown is SongJiang Fu, then sketching his family genealogy; summarizing the goal of this book, that's taking the Neo-Confucianism as the standard and accepting the poetry theory of both Tang and Song. In the conclusion, there is a review of the whole content of the thesis and the author's researching direction in the future. There are four attachments of the 70 Song Anthologies of the Qing Dynasty in the end of the thesis. The content comprises the rolls, the time, the edition, the content of each anthology, the quality of the publishing, the transmission of the edition, the catalogs, the introduction of the selectors and the places that store the anthologies. Besides, the publishing process will be listed in a table form, the prefaces and postscripts will be attached and the books'name that the Song Shi Lei Xuan has cited will also be showed in the attachments. The author of this thesis hopes all of them can give reference to the academic field.