On The Poetry Of Wen Zhengming

Wen Zhengming is a very important figure in art filed of center Wu area, who has got high achievement in painting and calligraphy. However, his fame in poem is shadowed by that in painting and calligraphy. This article is aim to restore Wen's true color and status as a poet in history through study of Wen zhengming's poems.The introduction part of the article summarizes about the academic research on Wen Zhengming in the past century, studying the achievements of researchers on his biography, literature review, hermit mentality, art ideas, art and other aspects, and finding that there are still some fields to explore in the biographical verification, individual thought, poetry, status and influence for Wen Zhengming finally.The first chapter examines the Wen Zhengming's literary friendship. Wen Zhengming's father Wen Lin was his mentor and recommender, who led him learn from Shen Zhou, Zhuang Chang, Wu Kuan and other literary predecessors. In the course of friendship, Wen Zhengming formed the tendency of learning poems of late Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty.The second chapter study the poetry of Wen Zhengming derived from other examples specifically. The aim is by studying the Wen Zhengming's learning style and grasping the style of poetry. In the process of learning Song poems, Wen Zhengming derived from Lu You, Su Shi and other poets specifically. So he can enter Song poems. In the process of learning late Tang poems, Wen Zhengming derived from Bai Juyi, Liu Zongyuan, Xu Hun and other poets, the result is that his poem show the feature of after Dali language.The third chapter discusses the poetic style of Wen Zhengming. By its orientation of poetry, his poems form the features of in the elegant and straight poems, often including Yiyun style. It expresses in the masatada of thought, elegant charm, straighten structure, hermit's feelings, elegant beauty, specifically. His poetry is a tradition inherit and development on Wuzhong's. It's soft extravagant way in general. It contrasted the poems of seven poets at the time.The fourth chapter discusses the position and influence on Wuzhong area in the Ming Dynasty Poetry. The poetry of Wen Zhengming clearly established his position of mid-Wuzhong poetry. He was one of the 10 friends in Dongzhuang, one of the 4 friends in Wuzhong area in the early, and the leader of the poetry in Wuzhong area in the late. The influence of Wen Zhengming on Wuzhong's poetry, reflected the large number of disciple and the succeed poem. His elegant and neat poems had great impact on Wang Zhideng, who was the leader in mid and late Ming Dynasty. By two of undertaking, Wuzhong poem was to retain a consistent characteristics of Wu area.Through his own poetry, Wen Zhengming caused the style of Wuzhong's poetry to the development of the elegant. Wuzhong's poetry was also in smooth promoting. Therefore, Wen Zhengming was the key figure between the past and the coming poetry of wuzhong, he should be a place in the Ming Dynasty.