Study On Yang Hong Dao

Yang Hong dao enjoyed great reputation in literary in the time when Jin Dynasty was replaced by Yuan.Due to encountering war occurred in late Jin Dynasty, he led a wandcring life in north and south, and lived in poverty, so he became miniature of misfortune of scholars at that time.Then, traditional Confucian ideas was shocked, on one hand, he was indignant at reality that Confucianism tended to decadence, and advocated to"support Confucianism to renew ancient tradition"; On the other hand, his lifestyle and state of mind were also affected by Buddhism and Taoism, so that he gradually became negative. In the time when Jin Dynasty was replaced by Yuan,some scholars either fled to Buddhism or hid in the village to seek refuge from war.Yet seclusion advocated by those scholars was neither helpless nor thorough. Yang Hong dao was originally aggressive in his early years, but he didn’t achieve fame on account of variety of reasons,and his temperament was incompatible with rule of doing things in the officialdom in that time, then he repeatedly encountered setbacks,which made him emerge relatively strong seclusion pursue. However,he had to run around to make a living, and he did not become a real hermit.Yang Hong dao etc’s seclusion pursue reflected harsh reality with which scholars in that time were confronted and their frustration.In late Jin Dynasty, due to advocacy of Li Chun fu and zhao Bing wen, atmosphere of advocating Tang poems to get antiquity prospered.Yang Hong dao was one of important typical cases. His poetry writing and literary criticism consciously inherited literary thought of reviving ancient learning for innovation which was advocated by Zhao and Li. Y’s Confucianism was deep-rooted.and he also experienced a profound sense of Song Dynasty Neo-confucianism. On the poetic ideas,He emphasized on characteristic of chanting nature, initiated on having a saying only have a moral,and opposed the concept that country helped creation. He attached importance to morality in terms of prose, which Integrated Song dynasty Zhu Xi’s prose concept,and had rich neo-confucianism flavor. Correspondingly, he took seriously a look into the poetry of Tang Dynasty,and was very dissatisfied with creative atmosphere of advocating poetic words and expressions from Sui and Tang Dynasty. Simultaneously, he also attached importance to versification. His thoughts was tolerant on looking into Song Dynasty cultural heritage. Yang Hong dao’s literary thoughts incarnated positive awareness of inheritance and innovation,which was included in the connotation of atmosphere of advocating Tang poems to get antiquity.This was closely related to special historical and cultural background which formed at that time、 Yang Hong dao’s personality and thought and life experiences.Yang Hong dao’s poems reflected bloody scene caused by the war occurred in late Jin Dynasty, however,he complained of hardship because of his misfortune even more in his poems, so his poems manifested hardship and plaintive emotional tone, being depressed and tortuous,and involved pathetique and restrained style characteristics more or less.His poems language was mild, which reflected the pursuit of fuga spirit,realization and assimilation of content and form of Tang Dynasty poetry.Specifically, Yang Hong dao advocated Tang poems, however, the objects that he imitated were not just one but a number of poets who lived in the prospering, medium and late Tang periods. Simultaneously, he also payed attention to Song poems, and absorbed nutrients from poems of Su Shi and so on.That is, Jin Dynasty poets learned from. Tang but not abandon song poems, incarnating positive accessibility awareness. His prose inherited a lot from many teachers,for example Han Yu、 Ou Yang xiu and Su shi etc, which had not factional views, didn’t imitate simply and follow regular routine. The purpose of his proses was combined with emotional catharsis,which made his own personality into his proses,so his proses showed a wide variety of artistic style. Simultaneously, his proses also merged Neo-Confucianist of Song Dynasty,which had reference value for a deeper understanding of prose creation features of late Jin and early Yuan periods.In summary, on the basis of inheriting the tradition of Tang and Song, Yang Hong dao endowed his own personality in his poetry and prose.Therefore his creation had a unique artistic style, his literary criticism also incarnated independent awareness.