A Discussion On Literary Production By Song Maocheng Of Ming Dynasty

The purpose of the study: Song Maocheng is an important writer in Ming Dynasty who has long been neglected by the academia and whose poesies and essays were hardly made inquires. Even though there are some pursuers, they tended to focus on his classical Chinese city novels, political novels and documents. However, he wrote in many literary forms, such as poetry, ci, essay, document, memorial, preface, biography and commentary, among which the creation of classical Chinese novels obtain the greatest achievement and influence. Studying his literary works is quite necessary to evaluate his status in the history of classical Chinese novels and even the Chinese literary.The methods of the study: It is a tradition to realize a person and discuss his lifetime in terms of Chinese literature. This paper begin with Song Maocheng's extraction and life and encircles his literary works so as to further confirm his significant status and influence in Chinese literary history. In Ming and Qing, the Songs literary group was a distinguished family who were characterized by emphasis on poetry, courtesy and moralization. In the group there were numerous talents whose writings were passed down. Song Maocheng was a representative connecting link between the preceding and the following. He owned the ability to rise above but never passed grades in the imperial examinations, "only working hard on writings" .All his existing writings are collected in Jiu Yue Ji. This paper is aiming to systematically analyze and value his essays, poesies and classical Chinese novels to revert his status which he should deserve in the literary history. Among Song Maocheng's sixteen essays, his travel essays rank first in success and quantity and characterize the writing style as leisurely, interesting, homely and concise. His eighty-seven poesies employ the manners of severe, straight and uncommon. So many verses win universal praise. His twelve ci characterize gentleness, tenderness, smoothness and vividness. His forty-four classical Chinese novels present extraordinary splendor. Among them the city love stories have fantastic subjects, strong anti-feudalism and anti-tradition consciousness and brilliant humanitarianism. The magnum opuses, Fu Qing Nong Zhuan, Zhu Shan, etc., have refined conceivability, twisted plots and simple language.His legend novels are quite romantic, in which the heroic knights-errant are usually depicted to have super martial arts and can speak out from a sense of justice, and may make the readers soul-stirring. One magnum opus is Liu Dong Shan. His realistic novels present a realism manner, which intervened the government, disclosed corruptive officers like Yan Song and his son, sang high praise for uncorrupted Hat Rui and animadvert on the fatuity and inability of the court. The magnum opuses are Hai Zhong Su Gong, Xu Wenzhen, Fen Yi and so on.Conclusion and significance: In a word, his classical Chinese novels embody the basic traits of the novels at the end of Ming Dynasty. He, who started to write books of anecdotes and trifles, fully regarded and actively worked on classical Chinese novels. Therefore he made great contribution to make novels into elegant position. His Fu Qing Nong Zhuan, Zhu Shan, Hai Zhong Su Gong, Liu Dong Shan and so on are all originally created sutras in Ming and Qing novel history. Simultaneously he established important foundation for Feng Menglong and Ling Mengchu to produce colloquial novels.