The Study On The Literature Of Liu Song Dynasty

The literature of Liu Song Dynasty playes an important role in the literature of the Six Dynasties,that linking the literature of Eastern Jin Dynasty and starting the literature of Qi and Liang Dynasty.Based on the relevant literature material,and the politics,culture,psychology and so on,I will try to analyze writers’ mystery,interpret the style and characteristics of works,explore the process and its significance,and strive to get the overall cognition on Liu Song Literature.The poetry of Liu Song Dynasty have a significant influence with its special characteristics of theme and genre.The landscape poetry written by Xie Lingyun has a graceful shape that a fusion of sound,color,light.He played down the philosophy,but added up the emotion,that established the new writting mode and guide the creative direction of landscape poetry.The banquet poetry written by Yan Yanzhi has a grand scheme and delicate strokes,that brought in an ornate and elegant style for Liu Song poetry.The Yuefu poetry written by Bao Zhao has the first-person narrative view,the heptasyllabic and mixed verse.He made the transformation from the third-person narration to the first-person narration,and from five-character to seven-character and mixted character.The mixed poetry written by Xie Zhuang has strong emotion,regular rhythm,balanced verse.He made the transformation from elegance to vulgarity,and from the Yuanjia style to Yongming style.The Fu of Liu Song Dynasty had double characters that inheritance and innovation.Shanju Fu written by Xie Lingyun shows inheritance: grand scheme,rich details,delicate descriptions.It also shows innovation: concise words,exquisite life,simple interests and so on.Wucheng Fu written by Bao Zhao shows innovation: regular sentences,fancy words,desolate condition,miserable emotion.Compared to luxurious style,it focused the allegorical meaning,that made a breakthrough to the aesthetic orientation.Mood Fu written by Xie Zhuang also shows innovation: elegant condition,concordant rhythms,regular symmetry and so on.It was marked the transformation from delineative Fu to lyrical Fu,and from “ancient Fu” to “parallel Fu”.There was a process from free style to mixture of free and parallel style to parallel style on the prose of Liu Song Dynasty.He Chengtian’s prose had kept the classic lasting appeal with the flexible syntax,fluent writing and unsophisticated styles.It can represent the characteristics of prose of the early stage of Liu Song Dynasty.Xie Lingyun and Fu Liang’s prose were the special products of evolution process from ancient prose to parallel prose with the mixture of free and parallel stlye.Yan Yanzhi ’s prose had made the transformation from ancient to parallel with its sumptuous language,vivid description,delicate diction and so on.Xie Zhuang and Bao Zhao’s prose were the matured parallel.Bao’s prose were ornate and powerful.Xie’s prose were regular and harmonious.Both of them had made enormous contributions to the prose of Liu Song Dynaty.Liu Song Dynasty was a period of change in Chinese ancient literature.It played down and cleaned up the philosophy of poetry of Eastern Jin Dynasty,that made the poetry transform from philosophical to lyrical.It focused on the quotations and skills,that made made the poetry transform from creative to imitative.It used mixed and heptasyllabic verse,that made the poetry transform from elegant to vulgar.There are a lot of mysteries about the writers of Liu Song Dynasty.By the textual research,He Chengtian held the post of Ning Man military officer Zhao Dan’s assistants in 408 A.D.,and he held the post of Hengyang military in 434 A.D..Fu Liang made the conflict with Wang Hua and Wang Tanshou and others,and was framed to die.Zong Bing went to the Mount Lu two times,the first was in 402 A.D.,the second was in 415 A.D..Yuan Shu held the post of Liu Yikang’s assistants in 431 A.D.,was appointed the officer in Xuancheng in 442 A.D.,and prince’s assistants in 447 A.D..Wang Wei was not died of feeling guilty for his brother’s death,but because of taking Cold-Food Powder.Xie Zhuang quit the job in Ministry of Personnel for avoiding making the conflict with the emperor Xiao wu,and to preserve himself.Tang Huixiu was forced to resume secular life in 458 A.D.,the reason was that he didn’t obey the rules of Buddism.