The Research On "The Xi Poiet Society"

"The Xi Club" is a poetry club of the adherents, which was created by some poets of adherents of Southern Song dynasty such as Xie Ao, Wang Yingsun, Lin Jingxi, Fang Feng after entering the Yuan dynasty. These scholars established poetry club and motivated each other to seek for the warmth of the group when they were composing. This paper conducted a comprehensive study about the Xi Club from the following three aspects. Firstly, the foundation time and related activities about the the Xi Club are researched reagain. Secondly, the Xi scholars' poetry was selective analyzed from the themes inclination and image. It is found that the themes of their poetry were relatively diverse, involving the destiny of nation, scholars, women, the Buddhism or Taoism feelings and the military subjects. And then, there are two types of outstanding image in their Corpus:magnificent image and novel image. Thirdly, the Xi scholars advocated returning to the ancients and adopting the Tang Dynasty's artistic methods, and also learned from Du Fu's historical spirit of poetry. Due to the implementation of the above-mentioned principles, their poetry have met with great success in reforming weak poetic style of Southern Song dynasty. And their unshakable integrity had deeply influenced the Ming and Qing latecomers, too.