Study On The Excursion Poetry Composed By Zhang Yuangan During His Retirement To Fujian

The thesis focuses on the excursion poetry, a type of classical Chinese poetry, created by Zhang Yuangan during his retirement, discusses the factors which cause to produce the kind of poetry during that time, classifies and elucidates Zhang Yuangan's acquaintances and productions and analyzes the artistic properties of his excursion poetry. The main body of my paper is divided into the following three parts.The first part of the thesis concentrates on the background and causes when Zhang Yuangan created those excursion poetry during Zhang Yuangan'retirement to Fujian, elaborating the social regime after Northern Song Dynasty was conquered by Mongolian army and its government transferred southward, the effect on the men of letters and scholar bureaucrats at that time, Zhang Yuangan's group consciousness and life circumstances.The Second part studies the excursion poetry created by Zhang Yuangang during his retirement, investigates the characters he had an intimate association with and it is the frequent contact with these friends that promote him to create the excursion poetry during that time which were handed down later. And those characters and the poetry can be divided into four classes as follows: the first one is typified by Li Gang and Hu Quan, and the type of excursion poetry reveals fervent feeling of patriotism; the second one represented by Li Mixun and Fu Zhirou and showing Zhang Yuangan'retirement and mentality; the third one embodied by Lv Benzhong and Xiang Ziye and unveiling the deep feeling towards his old friends and strong yearning for his homeland; the last one represented by Ye Mengde and Cheng Mai and displaying Zhang Yuangan's frequent interactions with the local feudal officials during that period.The third part probes into the artistic characteristics of the excursion poetry produced by Zhang Yuangan during his retirement to Fujian, mainly discussing his intense individual spirit and a wide range of content expressed in his excursion poetry and analyzing contributing factors of these artistic properties.