About The SuShi's Influence On Yuan You Ci

This essay treats SuShi's influence on Yuan You Ci during the Northern Song Dynasty. The influence could be classified into two major fields. One is the influence on the concept of Ci. Firstly, It analyses the background of the SuShi Ci's idea that is given, too. And then It treats the influence on YuYou Ci in theory though purification of Yuan You Ci., Which SuShi disapproved of the obscene style in Ci and tried to .purify from the aspects of content, mood and so on. Another is the influence on practise.Before SuShi, it was a dominant idea that Poem showed its authors' ambition while Ci displayed some aspiration. But SuShi posed that Ci was the descendant of Poem. Based on it, he often wrote his Ci with the method of writing Poem, entrusted his emotion to Ci, and he also tried to utilize the mocking effect of Poem in his Ci. All above were inherited by the writers of Yuan You Ci. So, the barriers being distinguished Ci from Poem were broken in fact.The other is the influence on the range of Ci's themes. The writers not only inherited the themes of SuShi Ci but also cultivated more. And the self-awareness in SuShi Ci was typically reflected in Yuan You Ci. So were parts of SuShi's grand and generous style. In a word, SuShi had had a great impact on Yuan You Ci.In the last part of the essay, Yuan You Ci was shortly evaluated and it is necessary to point out that Yuan You Concluding SuShi Ci) was a intermediary in the evolution of Ci.