On Qing Poetry Collection (A General Discussion)

Qing poetry collection or poetry collection in Qing Dynasty in this thesis refers to all the collections that contain poetry written by persons in Qing Dynasty. From the early beginning of Qing Dynasty, people often compiled Qing poetry collection. Thousands of such collections left the fruitful legacy in literature and culture to us. Qing poetry collection was an outstanding cultural and literary appearance in Qing Dynasty; it supplied us many data about Qing times, social surroundings, cultural atmosphere, literary tide, and it also refer to us a new study compiler' thoughts or angle. Qing poetry collection was very valuable in study but it is very pity that nowadays few people pay much attention to it. Not only quality but also quantity, it needs more research. We seldom study systematically Qing poetry collection in macro. In this thesis, I try to discuss totally about the Qing poetry collection. Now, there are some questions of interactive points and aspects about the study of it:This thesis covers preface, body and conclusion. Preface defined the conception and category of Qing poetry collection, simply reviewed past research and show the write methods and meaning in study.Body covers seven chapters. Chapter one and two study Qing poetry collection itself and discuss compilations blooming, which is general remarks. Others chapters are respective remarks. Chapter three and four belong to ontology and study it is more deeply compared with chapter one and two. Chapter three divides Qing poetry collection into ten sorts, including countrywide, locality, patriarchal clan, writing poems and replying, inscribing and chanting, examining and testing, folk song, the female sex, Buddhist monk and Taoist priest, forein lands. Then studies of inner side from the aspect of every sort, such as appearance, feature and accomplishment. Chapter four studies compilation style of the collection, it discusses in choice standard, compilation form and annex. The study tries to discover regularly phenomenon and outstanding feature.Other three chapters belong to function category and it aims to discuss documental value, literary meaning and cultural content. This thesis firstly discusses documental value of the collection. As a kind of documental vector in nature, any researcher can take what he needs from it. So, this thesis mainly studies Qing poetry. In this thesis?discuss documental value of the collection in Qing poetry preservation and materials of the writers. And then, I pay my attention to poetry, lyrics, Wen Fu, and so on. The collection is very meaningful in many sides from the point of literary study. This thesis mainly disserts three sides--- poetry thoughts, poets'collection and poetry schools. When disserting poetry thoughts and poets'collection, I take the method of connection the general discussion to the case. The value of the collection in cultural research is very all-inclusive. This thesis chooses upper academic thought, lower social phenomenon and middle political and historical changes as the study appoints, the other questions the thesis doesn't refers.In the conclusion, I try to prospect future development of the study and give some thoughts about the Qing poetry collections more deeply.