Study Of Ruanji's Yonghuai

Ruanji, a famous poet in Zhengshi (正始) times of Wei Dynasty, his Yonghuai had achieved prominent artistic merits in the history of ancient poetry of China. Even all the poems have been down for more than 1700 years, there are still many puzzles in the meaning. When we set our mind to disclose the deep meaning of these poems, two premises should be taking into account. Firstly, Yonghuai, so called as a group poem, is not really unite of poems in its intrinsic qualities. Secondly, they should be taken as lyric poems which express the real emotion and feeling rather than exceptional context of thought and mind.It can be distinguished five branches in Yonghuai's content when the standard of self-examination and world-reflection is set up. The first part is the expression and declaration of self-expectation and ambitions. The second part is the lament and anxiety about author's personal life. The third part is the long for and puzzlement about the immortal life. The fourth part is the attack and disclose of the treacherous circumstances. And the last part is the revealing and thought of the changes in social history.It should be taken as poems rather than thought context of Yonghuai, which has its own way to expose the inner meaning. First is that, it has melted the linear and flat expression way of Classical Poems ( 诗经 ) and the in-linear and multi-dimensional expression way of Songs of Chu (楚辞) . Second, it has prolonged the reading span by both changing the used poetic image and creating new image of its own. Third, rather than the usual poem likely to creates an independent aesthetic realm,what Yonghuai creates is field of meaning. Fourth, the language showed the turn from poetic language to thoughtful language.Just as Yonghuai displays its unique aesthetic characteristics in Chinese literatures, it has the special aesthetic style as well. First, it has the strongest sentimental feeling and emotion in the poems as fundamental. Second, it shows the confusion of strong emotion between obscure feelings. Third, it shows the plainand elegant style with both broad of sight and continuity of tune. It was the very time and special experiences and character that made the unique style, what's more ,both the brilliant mastery of art and excellent training of Qingtan (清淡) as well as the inner law of development of literature were all the decisive factors of the unique style for Yonghuai.In all, Yonghuai has gained the most distinctive position in the poetry history of China and has strong impact on later poets.