The Study On Wen Tong And His Poems

This article has studied Wen Tong and his poems, which included six sides, such as Wen Tong's family birth, political activity, drawer status and so on, starting from all his life experience and era situation.Wen Tong was born in an impoverished family. His poems showed different character with the men of letters in government official authorities. He was familiar with peasants' living, especially interested in agriculture produce, heartily sympathized with workers' unfortunate fate, and he had personal comprehension and understanding about the hardship of the people, too. His first-class work in ideological content and art level, tended to come from the people's things that reflected the problems of peasants and villages.Wen Tong's poems' creation was very close to his government official career. The country's politics permeated his all sides of living and creation. However, from his works, Wen Tong showed more negative. He had the golden mean and gentle political attitude, less touching the political situation of the time, so his works showed flat in reflecting social important things timely, truly and deeply. It was beyond doubt that his political feelings had affected his poems.During the political fights about introducing and un-introducing the reforms, Wen Tong was very careful, less expressing his opinion about the introducing. But he still suffered from banishing. The cruel reality badly blunted his ambition, made him lowering and desolate. Therefore, Wen Tong's boldness, courage, as well as official will got to fade, when he faced the social reality full of contradiction and the hard political situation.Wen Tong wrote scenery poems with drawing pictures method, watched with the enjoyment the nature scenery with artists' view, and depicted nature with drawing's way. He used drawing terminology in his poems, and even straightly took for instance drawing for the scenery in them. His unique method created one aesthetic feeling, which was both similar and un-similar to drawing. This remained splendid in poems' history.Wen Tong's idea showed contradiction structure , which Confucianism, Fo, and Dao replenished each other. He was active in official, and building exploits, then he was flat to escape official, and indifferent to position and wealth. His contradiction in being official and escaping official showed so projecting, which was collected with the era character that Confucianism, Buddhism, Dao were flourishing. People in the Song dynasty played attention to refined tastes, and liked to write poem to have games. This kind of works took up one half or more, which had affected his poems' quality. In the Song era, the atmosphere of enjoying Buddhism was very current. Buddhism academic nature permeated and ran through the author's living, especial literature creation, which made his poems ripple much Buddhism interesting and permeated lots of Buddhism theory, during chatting. This made poems in the Song -dynasty play a positive role, when the poems were Buddhismnized.The same as his political attitude, his stand and attitude were also common, during the poems' developing in the Song. On the one hand, he absorbed some view of three types of literature in the early Song, and used the experience of their art practice. On the other hand, he accepted in some degree innovation thoughts, and so reformed a little for the three types of literature. Most of Wen Tong's regulated verse broke away from the flowery language atmosphere of Xi Kun group, but his style was not the same as the poems innovation group. His theme subject, expression skill, language use and style tone, tended to inherit Tang poems, learning from Du Fu and Han Yu. This kind of unique art pursuing played some effect in promoting the Song people's poems creation to change for Tang poems. In addition, the using allusion in Wen Tong's poems occupied regular position during the poems' spreading in the Song- dynasty, too.In a word, Wen Tong was a poet who had defects as well as merits. Over pulling up him wasn't accorded with the historic true features, and neglecting him completely was not also responsible for literature history in China.