Research On Zheng Banqiao's Poetry

Zheng Banqiao is the most well-known one from the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou,and also a versatile talent in the history of Chinese culture.There are many legends about him among the common mass and the research on him in the academic circle is abundent.My thesis is foused on his poetry.The whole thesis is divided into five chapters.The first chapter is a brief account on my motive for this thesis.The second chapter is a brief introduction to Zheng Banqiao'life.There have been scholars ,who do a textual research on the chronicle of his life and write biography of him,so this chapter is comparatively short.The third chapter explores the background from the middle of the Ming to the period when Zheng Banqiao live from the aspects of the commercial prosperity,controvery between the rule and desire and tremendous change of the literary world in order to testify that the appearance of eccentric,like Zheng Banqiao is not a coincidence but the necessity of the situation.The forth chapter analyses the characteristics of Zheng Banqiao's poetry in terms of idiosyncrasy as well as the interferential role in current affairs of his poetry and point out that his poetry,as Gong'an School and Yuan Mei,is apt to express one's mental world,and the difference lies in that Zheng Banqiao's poetry also pays attention to reflect the reality.The fifth chapter is the conclusion.