The Study Of Yunnan Poetry Collection

Yunnan poetry collections in this paper refer to all the poetry collections that compiled by the people of Yunnan and all the poetry collections with Yunnan as the centre. From the early beginning of Ming Dynasty, people began to compile poetry collections. About two hundreds of Yunnan poetry collections left the fruitful legacy. This is an outstanding cultural and literary phenomena supplied us with such data by which we can study Literature, History. Philosophy, Natural science and so on. In a word, Yunnan poetry collections are very valuable in study. In this paper, I try to discuss a few main questions about the study on the basis of the analytical angel of both macroscopic and microscopic view.This paper contains three sections:foreword, text and conclusion. Foreword defines the scope of Yunnan poetry collection, introduces the research status and demonstrates the research purpose and meaning.Text covers ten chapters. Chapter One describes the prosperity of Yunnan poetry collections, discusses the reason of the generation and booming. Chapter two overviews the development course of Yunnan poetry collections from Ming Dynasty to Late Qing Dynasty. Chapter Three divides Yunnan poetry collections into nine categories, including national, classical, patriarchal clan, writing and responding, narrating and chanting, examing and testing, folk song and ballad, female class, monks and so on; then describes the internal constitute,basic characteristics and achievement of every categories. Chapter Four studies compilation purpose and compilation features of the Yunnan poetry collections. Chapter Five discusses the literary value of Yunnan poetry collections. Chapter six discusses the documental and historical value of the Yunnan collections by means of preserving poetry and writers’ materials. Chapter seven to Chapter ten focus on case studies, i.e.provincal level poetry collections.Finally, this paper concludes the innovaton point of such as the difference from other local poetry collections, and further research direction and future prospect of this topic.From the macro perspective, this paper is undergoing an overview research on the prosperity, development course, categories, compilation purpose and features, literary and documental value of Yunnan poetry collections. Meanwhile, from the microscopic angel, this paper studies the background, basic features of the single collection as well as the text structure, compilation features, literature values, cultural significance through the deep and meticulous research. At last, appendix about the bibliography of Yunnan poetry collections is included.