Jinze Rong Creation Of Chinese Poetry

Kim Taek-Yong (1850-1927), a famous poet and essayist at the end of Joseon Dynasty, created a considerable amount of poems, essays and the like, and left the world volumes of history writings, among which more than one thousand poems survived today. All these poems are the creation with Chinese characters, mainly included in the work of Shaohutang (also known as Kim Taek-Yong’s Complete Works). His poems has a various topics ranging from history, patriotism, the people to landscapes and so on, which praise a long history and culture of the motherland, satirize and admonish current affairs by borrowing Chinese ancient people and stories, express infinite emotion for history and time&space, reflect the people’s livelihood by pointing out current problems, or express the strong love for mountains and rivers of the motherland.Exploration of Kim Taek-Yong’s Chinese Poetry not only helps us get ideas about the real condition in the Korean Peninsula in the poet’s ages, more importantly, gives us a view of the age-old cultural exchange and interaction between China and the Korean Peninsula, and helps us examine China and the entire Korean Peninsula’s acceptance of Western civilization under the impact of modern civilization at the end of Joseon Dynasty, which will contribute to promote the friendship between China and countries in the Korean Peninsula.Jin Kim Taek-Yong’s ages witnessed dramatic changes and unusual turbulence in the Korean peninsula and with the ever intensifying contradictions among the different classes of the Joseon Dynasty as well as between the two classes of the ruling class, the society was threw into a political and economic chaos. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Korean people experienced rare ethnic difficulties with the Korean peninsula and China mainland being shrouded in haze under big country’s competition, and no such a profound influence of big countries on a country’s internal affairs can compare with the one in the Korean Peninsula in the late nineteenth century. Such a situation had a direct impact upon Kim Taek-Yong’s life and writing. As a scholar, Kim Taek-Yong also had a strong patriotic heart, he wrote Chinese poetry to call for the motherland in distress, practicing his ideal of culture serving the country. It can be said that the turbulent domestic and external environment enriched the content of Kim Taek-Yong’s Chinese poetry. In addition, there is no doubt that the glorious achievements in his field of literature at the late half of the Joseon Dynasty, the rise of pragmatic thought, the booming of national literature, the frequent exchange among friends from both China and the Korea, and the learning of Western civilization, provided Kim Taek-Yong’s creation of Chinese Poetry a unique advantage.In this paper, with Kim Taek-Yong’s creation of Chinese Poetry as study center, critical methods of classical literature poetry and comparative literature, and literary theories of reception aesthetics and affect learning will be employed to elaborate on the special background of the times of Kim Taek-Yong’s creation and its effect on the poet’s choice of literature serving the country and his fled to China, explore Kim Taek-Yong’s acceptance of Chinese poetry theory and the spirit of the times in his poetry theory, study theme implications of Kim Taek-Yong’s Chinese Poetry, and analysis artistic features of Kim Taek-Yong’s Chinese poetry in terms of verse, rhetoric, language arts, etc. To sum up, this paper will have such main innovation as the following aspects:1. Concept and significance of Kim Taek-Yong’s poetry writing, and his acceptance, inheritance, criticizing and carrying-forward of Chinese Poetics will be analyzed systematically. So far, with no one having made a comprehensive and detailed study on Kim Taek-Yong’s poetry theoretical system, this paper fills such research blank.2. A detailed exposition of Kim Taek-Yong’s choice of geographical names and colors, and the images of mountains and plum in his Chinese poetry will show the inner world and noble sentiments of the experienced poet.3. Theme implications of Kim Taek-Yong’s poetry will be expanded. His ode to History, patriotism, concern for the people and landscapes and so on are extremely outstanding works of Chinese poetry, in spite of different themes, reflect his love and concern for the country and the nation from many views.4. The paper proves that Kim Taek-Yong was a progressive poet in turning point from ancient to modern in terms of new vocabulary, poetic images, and antithesis weakening and so on.The author deeply feels it very difficult to fully grasp all Kim Taek-Yong’s texts and his literary creation. Therefore, this paper only chooses Kim Taek-Yong’s Chinese poetry texts as study objects, and at the same time, will employ the research methods of comparative literature so as to break the previous single study mode and study Kim Taek-Yong Chinese Poetry Writing, multi-dimensional and multi-angle. It is convinced that the achievements of this paper can provide a good reference for the Sino-Korean Comparative Literature Studies, and add fresh contents to Chinese research areas in Korea.