Meng Jiao And Zhenyuan Parnassus

Taking 'MengJiao and Zhenyuan Parnassus' as the topic, this article aims at exposing the main features of Dali and Yuanhe Parnassus, to explore the creative situation, to understand its characteristics, the commonalities and the variability of Zhenyuan Parnassus. Made an accurate description of MengJiao's achievements and its status in Zhenyuan Parnassus. This article will discuss this topic by extending itself into four main parts.For the first part, it is doing to explore the relationships of Mengjiao and other Zhenyuan poets. Initially, clear out the situation of poets' population. The Zhenyuan poets were in the special turning in which that the traditional ways of poem creation encouraged and new trend started to come out. And they mainly can be divided into three parts: Dali poets whose activities extended far to Zhenyuan time, the new talents who did not gaining reputations until entering to the time of Yuanhe, the Zhenyuan poets whose leaders were Dezong, QuanDeyu and MengJiao. Secondly, discuss the relationships between MengJiao and certain poet. At that time, MengJiao showed his strong respects and admirations for the famous old generations. And found his lofty sentiments, respectable and justice-oriented goals for poem. He cried for the unjust of life and fate when suffering and sharing the similar destiny with other poor talents. As the pioneer of leading HanMeng poem faction, he improved himself through discussions with HanYu, ZhangJi, etc. And managed to help forming (materializing) and developing the new-odd poem faction at mid- Tang dynasty.From the second to forth part, discuss specifically MengJiao's unique status in Zhenyuan Parnassus. Having been influenced by the atmosphere of the weak sentiments and magnificent vigorous, he tried to corrected the disadvantages of Dali poems with the 'painful moaning' creative attitude. And set up his own special poem status from content, formality and style. To begin with, MengJiao had made great efforts in five-word anciet poem style and Yuefu poem style. For the second, formally, at the content, he showed great 'virtuous spirit' in his poems. That mainly represented in several respects: for the first one, in artistic conception part, he emphasized and pursued the distress circumstances, his seeking for the 'virtuous spirit', was originated from the contradiction between his sufferings, moral behavior and social realities. Thirdly, Mengjiao's poems can be divided into two parts mainly: one generally inherited the Dali poem style, especially from the pure poem style that represented by JiaoRan and WeiYingwu. The other part was his famous and reputable masterpiece of Zhenyuan poem circle. His poems' features were outstanding, mature and unconventional, most of which were filled of resentments, oddness and unpleasant matters. His 'pure-odd style' feature was the result of inheriting and developing. And the 'virtuous style' then appeared and became mature during the Zhenyuan time. The tow styles then far influenced the Yuanhe Parnassus.At last, made conclude of MengJiao's creative achievements and significance. In his early years, MengJiao was strongly influenced by the Dali poets, and also once socialized with famous poet and monk JiaoRan. He then gradually set up his own 'pure-odd poem style'. In Zhenyuan Parnassus, he suffered a lot in the cruel social reality. And put all his dissatisfactions, detestation, distress into his poems, developed and matured his unique 'distress style'. And continually influenced other poets of HangMeng faction, even extended to the late Tang dynasty. That is to say, MengJiao was an important person connecting Dali and Yuanhe, and his poems and creation style represented the transitional feature of Zhenyuan Parnassus.