Study On Prosaic Preface And Postscript Of Han Dynasty

Literature of Han Dynasty being more flourishing than ever, it appears many preface and postscript. But researches on them are less than other literary forms at academic circles. There are many definitions about preface and postscript in different dictionaries. Background of society, types of works and intentions of theorists bring different names of preface and postscript. In this case, readers would get lots of suspicion. Literary criticism and literary appreciation require in-depth and systematic researches to preface and postscript. Despite of a large number of studies on them, researches to preface and postscript are scattered, which become important literary forms in later times. It is necessary to hackle stylistic external form, ideological content, literary theory of connotation and Literary historical study.Prosaic preface and postscript of Han Dynasty inherit forms of texture of Pre-Qin, and create a large number of pioneering forms. Influenced by social thoughts of Han Dynasty, personal suffering and different values of authors, preface and postscript have various orientations. Thought is the soul of prosaic preface and postscript of Han Dynasty. Though literary theories about preface and postscript are scattered in Han Dynasty, its value are precious. They involve various styles of cognitions, relationships between content and form, functions of literature, creative progress of literature etc. And they are reflected in two kinds of literary criticism, which are hunting authors'thought and circumstances based on the works and push source up rivers.As a carrier of author's experience, preface and postscript contain abundant of various information, and provide theoretical possibility for literary historical study. Bie Lu, Qi Lue, Han Zhi directly lead to generation of bibliography. There are lots of researches about preface and postscript in ancient times, referring to reality and spread of works, author's academic thoughts, styles of works, time and location of works'creation, explanation and evaluation about figures, historical events, customs, and text faults etc. It plays an important role in exploring social culture and the condition of literary development in that time.