A Study On Poetry Of Wujiang In Qing Dynasty

In Qing dynasty, hundreds of poets and poems sprung up in the Wujiang Area. The authors of these poems fall into many types, among them there are heroes against Qing, common people left from the former dynasty. Also, there are who became small bureaucrats who served for the Qing Dynasty court through competitive and strict Imperial Examination System. Nevertheless, most of the bureaucrats are degraded unimportant ones with little power and low position. Moreover, there are unconstrained people, ragged people as well as hermits. Regardless of which type they belong to, all of these poets were able to convey to their sentiments boldly without any confinement like wild oats, displaying their unique poetic style. As for their experiences and visions, some have experienced the uproar of wars, some have a usual and peaceful life career; some make their mind and determine to resist the war; some, however, choose to submit to it. In spite of that, none of them has the same background or situation. Their poems fall into a wide range of subjects with completely different contents. Some of them are impassioned elegy, some however are crooned without profound meanings. Also, some are composed to express their cynicism and sadness in terms of the wind or the moon. Some are composed with a longing for being a common person away from the empire, but others are also reflected in a praise of serving in a court. On the whole, the fact that these poems have vivid personal style and unique local characteristics, to some extent, more suggest that they share some common features in its time.In Qing Dynasty, many elites in the literature field were gathered together in the Wujiang Xian of Suzhou-a place where the culture was booming at its time, leading the most intense cultural and academic atmosphere. Radiant splendour applied to he literature composition as well as the theory criticism, which was hardly seen in any other form of literature.However, despite of the boom, little is known toward the current research in Wujiang literature, in particular the study of Wujiang poems in Qing dynasty requires to be further studied. To date, the major focus of research in Wujiang literature in the literature circle centers on study in family, the female as well as drama. When it comes to the research toward some individual authors, the center is focused upon only a few like Ye Xie and Wu Zhaoqian. Based on the study of former researchers, firstly this article gives a discussion on poems creation of many people, such as resisting Qing hero Wuyi, poets who focus on the common people left from the former dynasty such as Zhu Heling and Wang Xichan, as well as poets Ji Dong, Wu Zhaoqian, Ye Xie, Xu Qiu, Pan Lei and Guo Lin, who served the court of Qing Dynasty through Imperial Examination System. Additionally, the study of several female poets with outstanding achievements in poems composition in Wujiang of Qing dynasty were discussed, namely Yao Qixia, Zhou Yubu, Wang Yuzhen and Wu Qiongxian. Furthermore, more research also goes to the Yuan Poems composed by poems critics Ye together with its influence, the ideas and thoughts of poets Gu Youxiao, Xu Qiu And Yuan Qinglu, as well as poems along with their theory by Zhu Heling, Wu Leifa, Li Zhonghua and Guo Lin.Especially to note, apart from the study of poems, a large number of achievements were also made in sorting out the archieves and classifying the collections. Given this into consideration, this article makes a statistical classification of the poem-collections collected and edited by the local literal people. In addition, by virtue of examples, the reason why the flourishing sitution appeared and the significance as well as its influence were discussed, which were included in the appendix part, among which the classification conditions of four forms of collections are analysed. First comes the selection of some Tang poems; secondly the compilated poem-collections from other dynasties; thirdly the local poem-collections and finally belongs to the compilated family archives.Based on the fact that study among the composition of poems, the criticism of poems theory and literature compilation sprung up in Qing dynasty, this article discusses the flourishing situation of Wujiang Poems forum, suggesting its significance in making a contribution to the integrity and prosperity of the Qing Poems, the boom of Qing literature as well as the Chinese literature and poem history.