Yiduo Wen’s "Chuci" Research

“ChuCi” research has been continued more than about two thousand years, but themost important results mainly concentrated in20th centry, which originated a batch ofCross-Century scholars, Among them, one of them is YiDuo Wen which have the vividpersonality. He is poet, scholar, and Gladiator. Inherited the family learning when he wasa child, he has the solid foundation of the old learning, wrIting modern poetry when hewas in tsinghua, studying in the USA for learning the western painting, he Specialized inChina literature as he said “half-way droped, and no regulated training”. Relying on theintelligent, painful working, the academic atmosphere and research conditions inTsinghua University, and the China classical literature research of foreign scholar, YiDuoWen is the leader of “ChuCi” research during the War of Resistance against Japan.There are two peaks in YiDuo Wen’s classical literature research, poems of the TangDynasty and ChuCi. There are some disagreement in the YiDuo Wen’s research of“ChuCi”, however, evaluating from “the pioneering position in research history of“ChuCi” after May Fourth Movement”, to “very eccentric, odd argument”. But, by usinggradually matured research methods, YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” research may spent the mosttime, effort, and gained the most prominent results, which could highlight his academicindividualityYiDuo Wen’s“ChuCi” research’s researches, the representative works are XuanLiu’s “Critical Biography of YiDuo Wen” in1980s and Dianxiang Liu’s National SocialScience Fund of2012“modern culture sight of YiDuo Wen’s classical academic researchtheory”, and Single chapter or single section involved in YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” researchin Master or Doctor degree’s thesis. In this thesis, however, mainly reseach through thefour subjects reveals the YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” research’s research, there are as follows:an indissoluble bond between YiDuo Wen and “ChuCi”; the new theory of YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” research; the academic personality of YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” research, theMethodology of YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” research.chapter one, Through the method of “the investigation subject’s own view”, weconcluded that there are two phases in YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” research: from the Springof1932to December1942,“about ten years” he cencentrated his energy in “ChuCi”’sresearch. And from Spring1943to the summer vacation of1944, he seek researchs in thecracks. In the first phase, YiDuo Wen’s achievements were affirmatived by theDeliberation Council of Ministry of Education, which gaved him the honor of academicsecond prize in1943for his “Proofread and Supplement of “ChuCi””; the secondphrase,also the last phrase of academic research of YiDuo Wen,“ChuCi” is among thethree research objects during this period. In June111946, after the unscript of “theNine Songs New”, he was assassination on July15,1946. YiDuo Wen‘s “ChuCi”research was accompanied with the end of his life.In the second chapter, the new theory of YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” research. Put YiDuoWen‘s “ChuCi” research in more than two thousand years of academic history of“ChuCi” research and the background of the results of “ChuCi” scholarscontemporaneity with him, from Sima Qian’s "Records QuYuan Jia Sheng Biography",Ban Gu "Han shu YiWenZhi.", Liu Xie “Wen Xin Diao Long Sao Bian" to Wang Yi“ChuCi ZhangJu”, HongXingZu “ChuCiBuZhu”, Zhu Xi”ChuCi JiZhu” to Wang, Ling,Jiang, Ji the four scholars of the Qing dynasty, and to the last JiPing Liao, GuoWei Wang,QiChao Liang, ShiHu, PeiRu Lu, GuoEn You, MuQian, MoRuo Guo, et al. Based onVertical and horizontal comparison, unearth the new theory of YiDuo Wen‘s “ChuCi”research.The third, the academic personality of YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” research， theacademic personality include the pursuit of value, cultural selection, personality ideal,aesthetic taste, style to speak, YiDuo Wen’s academic personality is related with thetimes he live and his personal experience. Filled with the poet’s romantic temperament,YiDuo Wen had more understanding of the harmony and elegance of classical art, and liked to use new ideas and new methods, loved to put forward the hypothesis quitethoughtful. And with academic viridity exceptionally commendable, His academic researchkept the traditional and innovation, and surprised all. And he has the creative thinking,and Has a valuable academic vigor.The fourth, the Methodology of YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” research. This chapterfocuses on the the Methodology of YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” research, elucidated theconsciousness, feasibility of Multiple methods of “ChuCi” research, mainly Commentarythe common use of cultural anthropology, folklore, archeology in YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi”research. We seek the origin of academic, and estimated it in a objective, justice manner.YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” research spent him “ten years hard work”, YiDuo Wen is theleader of “ChuCi” research during the War of Resistance against Japan; The researchstyle of YiDuo Wen’s “ChuCi” research are different from others, and unique views arecommon, YiDuo Wen’s academic individuality is fully revealed at the research field of“ChuCi”,which, originally, may have the analogous personality with QuYuan. Just as theold proverb says “Unrestrained man forge ahead, cautious man not move a step”. He hasthe extraordinary intuition and imagination, and also the unique thinking style. Hedistinguishingly used the multiple methods such as Cultural anthropology, Folklore,archaeology ethnology, mythology, religion to unscramble ChuCi.