Korea Yu Mong Prose Study

Liu Mengyin (1559-1623) is North Faction of new fumiomi and the famous sinologist in mid-Joseon Dynasty. He has been handed down 248 proses and these proses have been collected in "Yuyu Collection", as well as "Yuyu Chat" handed down. Overall, his prose is excellent, worth studying in compareative literature.In the era of Liu Mengyin, Korea's Zhu Xi Neo-Confucianism was declining from the peak; new Practical Science produced gradually; party struggles was fierce domestic and Japan, Jurchen invaded repeatedly; then political relations between Korea and China was unprecedented close, and the exchange of culture and literature was very frequent. At this point, the classical proses of Tang Song and the retro literary trends of Ming Dynasty impacted Korea deeply. At that time, Korea's writers emphasized on poetry more than prose. Some writers still wrote dual text. Multicultural context impacted Liu Mengyin's creation deeply.As a mature writer, Liu Mengyin had a conscious sense of creation, that is "win glory for the country "and "immortal". Liu Mengyin's literature thought is also very rich. First, he learned from the traditional Chinese theories,such as "Poems express ideas"" Poems from the feelings" "Understand what the author's age and experience" and other poetic theory. But when Liu Mengyin evaluated their own writing with these theories, his comments was filled with nationality. Secondly, he absorbed Han Yu and Liu ZongYuan's " articles ignited thought" "feelings of unfairness trigger creation" "reference to other works" and other classical theories, but he made appropriate modifications and formed his own prose theoretical system.Liu Mengyin's proses not only have profound ideological,but also have strong artistic quality because of multicultural context, his conscious sense of creation and the rich literary thought. His prose is not only contains the traditional Confucian ideology of faithful, takashi, chastity, moral, but also combines the characteristics of the times of Joseon, reflecting the Practical Science ideas and a strong national consciousness.The profound ideas implication of Liu Mengyin's proses can be summarized as"faithful, takashi, chastity, and moral is the roots of Confucianism""win over the people in order to strengthen the rule""learn from ancient times and today's policy to save the country and the people""China is a country, Korea is a country too""loving the nature""cherishing friendship".Liu MengYin prose's artistic quality embodied in the structure, language, figures of speech and artistic styles and so on. The structure is ingenious and close,some artistics are organized with a sentence, some artistics gradually into the theme,and some artistics'context is echo each other; The language is flexible,for Example, glossary is accurate and rich, sentence is flexible; Analogy, in parallel, exaggeration and contrast made the proses colorful and expressive; From early to late,the artistic style is different,early prose is passionate and fierce,expressing masculine beauty,late prose is mild and diluted, expressing feminine beauty.Chinese cultural context was importangt to Liu MengYin,he studied China's traditional culture all along,his literature also based on Chinese culture. In Liu Mengyin's proses,we can see pre-Qin proses'reasoning features,such as explain the reason with analog, something and fables.And we also can see the impact of Han Dynasty prose in form, idea and art. At the same time, Liu Mengyin still learned from HanYu and Liu Zongyuan in the style of writing, language and thoughts. Liu Mengyin's prose is very good at citing the classical theory, and the majority allusions that he quoted were from the story of China's various cultural texts. These factors embody multicultural characteristics.Liu Mengyin was a representation writer in mid-Joseon Dynasty, his contribution is beyond the imitation stage, creation from heart; efforted to change Joseon Dynasty's creative atmosphere of formalism, promoted to write classical prose actively; summarized the principles and specific methods of prose writing; reflected and promoted the China-Korea's political and cultural exchanges. However, there are some flaws in Liu Mengyin's proses.for example, his attitude that excluding parallel prose and pursuing classical prose was too radical; excluded the prose after Tang, denied Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi's proses; promoted ethical enlightenment excessively; some proses are not refined and rendering excessively and so on. However, these flaws can not conceal Mengyin's prose's outstanding achievements.