| Poems for reciprocating is composed of two types------reward poem and echopoem. .Reward poems contain presenting poems, largess poems and poems at parting. Receivers can response or not. Echo poems include responsory, reply poem and so on. Through the development in Han, Wei and Tang Dynasty, reciprocating poem flourished in the South Song Dynasty.Fan Chengda had 623 reciprocating poems in all. It is mainly about the welcome and farewell among friends and colleagues. Its content covers the following respects: expression of ideas and mind, mountain climbing, sightseeing, drinking in banquet, enjoying flowers .exchanging gifts, comparing notes about poems and other things in daily life .His poems have such different types: responsory, farewell poem, reciprocating poem, reward poem, response poem, thanking poem, monody and so on. There are five stages in Fan's creation of reciprocating poems. His reciprocating poem is a carrier of thinking and art .It includes different contents concerning feelings, cultural mentality and life sentiment, fully bringing forth his mental and cultural personality, truly implying some significant clues: the subtle development of the mental, political and cultural intention of his poems and the way of how his verses became more mature.From Fan's reciprocating poems, we can see his great desire to establish achievement, his Confucianism, his sincere, deep-felt feelings for friends and brothers, his Taoism of surmounting, inaction and vacuity., his yearn for garden life, disdain for the earthliness and leisure sentiment.From Fan's reciprocating poems, we can see the development in his mental, political and cultural state.From Fan's verses we can also see the track of the development of his poems: step out of the style of Jinx school, gradual progress in literary art.From Fan's reciprocating poems, we have found the shape of a new kind of independent poem, which is vivid, elegant and firm.The basic connotation of Fan's verses is perspicuity, clearness , novelty and free from vulgarity.His pursuit for the style of clear beauty is an inheritance of the traditional origin in the poem history. On the other hand, the formation of this style is due to his life experience and his getting close to landscape and natural scene. His pretty and free personality depends on his worship for the anchorites in Jin and Song Dynasty. Fan's exquisite style combining with the elegant style of Jiangxi school, and eight years' working experience in court sanctum make him improve his taste for beauty. The rigorous style in his poems results from his precise personality.
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