Mao Pang And His Songs

Mao Pang, a member of the literary circle in the last years of SongDynasty, was good at poetry and essays. His poetry displayed great art.However, little study has been conducted on Mao Pang's literary workssince the last 100 years, and the existing studies have been limited in hislife and the regret of separation , without comprehensive and integrativeresearches. Beginning with his plight all his life, the present thesisexamines closely East Room Ci of Mao in order to reveal the whole styleand features and induce Mao's artistic characters from his works.Born in last years of the age, Mao cherished the ideal of saving thenation. He sank into the lower officers for so many years because ofdifferent reasons as to be in dire straits and suffered a lot, but he alwaystreated hardship with open mind and leisurely attitude. After public affairs,he regarded official career as seclusion, therefore, his songs displayedcasual and elegant style. His contribution to the literature of Song Dynasty,as a matter of fact, lies in he was the first writer who created a lot ofdelicate and fascinating songs.Mao Pang's poetry mainly involved official career, association,landscape, love, season, custom and so on, which relatively reflected onpursuits, vicissitudes of life and psychology all of his life. In the arts, hissongs not only had the perfection of the craftsmanship, such as literaryallusions and writings, but also had the perfection of the charm , such asbright tincture and quiet creative concept.Mao Pang's association was very extensive. As a writer, checking hisassociation and clarifying his social relations was very important, whichexpect to make out the effect of age and culture.