Research On The Sui, Tang And Five Dynasties POETRY TALKS

Abstract:Poetry talks are the poetic monographs that expound poetic theories, miscellaneous poems observations and impart how to write poems in a free and casual attitude. The Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties poetry talks appear before that of Song dynasty in Chinese poetry talks’history, and they belong to poetry talks development stage in the narrow sense with the special emphasis on "talking poetry with facts". This paper takes "the Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks" as the research subject, aims at reveal their contents, features and value. The specific discussion processes are as follows:"Introduction" firstly defines poetry talks from their features, contents and the stylistic rules and layout; expounds the current research, the problems existing in the research, the meaning of this research and the innovation.Chapter1,"compiling and arrangement of the Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks" introduces the material collecting and sorting process of the division of history into period compilation poetry talks. It contains1217articles of poetry talks materials from84works ranging from A.D.581to960. The compilation processes are:record all the materials in poetry talks works at the Sui, Tang and Five dynasties; compile the materials that coincide with the standard compilation scattering in the works; take the Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks after Song dynasty as complementary. The compiling and arranging system of poetry talks of the Sui, Tang and Five dynasties take example by "Tang Chronicle" and the Tang and Five dynasties compiled by predecessors. It is the relatively complete and systematic poetry talks works of the Sui, Tang and Five dynasties. Chapter2,"the classification research on the Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks" classifies all the poetry talks and sketch the contents and values of each poetry talks. It can be divided into "to talk poetry with facts" and "to talk poetry with words"."To talk poetry with facts" includes "skill class" poetry talks that records relevant poetry creation and event propagation,"interpretation class" poetry talks that interpreters the custom and citing allusion,"textual class" that textual criticize and identify the poetries and anecdotes. This kind of poetry talks mainly help readers interpret the content of poetry and experience the characteristic of the poet."To talk poetry with words" contains "practice class" poetry talks that introduces creation approach of poetries,"judge class" that judges and comments the poets and poems,"theory class" poetry talks that expounds poetic theory. They mainly have the theoretical value of judging the strength and weakness, gains and loss of poetry talks and guiding the later poetic creation.Chapter3"Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks and poetic creation" informs the poetry creation situation of this period by analyzing Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks. Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks reflects the creation motive of poet and the creation process and poems in that period. The creative desire of poet originates from the disturbance in mind by the external environment and the emotion of the poet can be aroused. When the poet arise the will of expressing the emotion in the heart, the emotion then can be transformed to conveyed volunteer, this kind of expressing the will is the motive for creation. There are many kinds of emotions, and the easiest that causes the desire of poet to compose is sadness for sadness is the most true and profound emotion that can stimulate the creation desire of the poet. But not all the poet that has strong motivation can write excellent work for it’s not easy to turn the heart will into volunteers.In order to express the characteristic in heart in complete and appropriate words, the poets must possess the suitable talents and good poetry method to make his work more outstanding and the poets also must have their individual character and their own creation styles.Chapter4" Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks and poetry spread" informs the poetry spread situation of this period by analyzing Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks. It reveals three problems in poetry spread:factors that influence the poetry, the means of poetry spread, and the affects of poetry spread. The factors that affect the poetry spread are:the spreader, the poetry itself and spread receiver. The means of poetic spread have varieties ways and the most outstanding is the spread of "the wall poetry". Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks shows the location, feature and value of the poems. The influence of Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks embodies in improving the poet’s poem name, helping the poet realize his dreams, getting appreciation when helping others and let a person calamity or exemption from evil.Chapter5"Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks and poetry reception" inform the poetry reception situation of this period by analyzing Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks. Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks shows three reception ways. The reception ways of "interpretation" includes two different reading ways:"original story criticism" and "poetry prophecy". The former is to understand the real purpose of writing and the original meaning of poetry, while the later is based on the implication of the readers’association, the poetry content and event, intentionally "twist" and "misreading" to demonstrate some poetry creation be card the events that happened later. The means of "Judge and comment" is taking "enlightened type" comments on poet, poems by summarized and terse language to reveal the characteristics of poets or judge and comment the quality of the poets, poems. The reception way of "opinions on poetry" is to make a thorough and theoretical summary on the creation situation and atmosphere.Chapter6"Reasearch on special poets group at Sui, Tang and Five dynasties poetry talks" is the case study and it discusses monarch poetry talks, female poetry talks and monk poetry talks respectively. Monarch poetry talks show the characteristic, motivation of the monarch rhyming and the attitude of court on monarch rhyming. Female poetry talks can be divided into GongWei, female beauties, brothel and female immortality ghost by identity. They reflect the features of female poetry creation and the attitude of people in time on female poetry creation. Monk poetry talks is rich in content. In addition to the communication of monk and scribes, the attachment to power of monk, the development context of monk and the judge and comment of monk, it still contains a description of anecdotes, the explanation of poetic theory and the embody of the wisdom and Zen Buddhism, and there are also some contents about poetry prophecy. Though there poetry talks, not only can we understand the poetry creation situation at Sui, Tang and Five dynasties, but also learn their friends-making experience and the plight of survival...