A Primal Study On The Palace Literature In The Period Of Emperor Wu Of The Han Dynasty

The palace literature in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were mainly popular in Emperor Wu's palace, which were written by Emperor Wu, accompanying literary servants, palace musicians and royal court ministers to represent the royal palace life, praise the prospect of the great Han Dynasty, satirize the failures of the royal goverment, and reflect the innermost feelings of people. These literary works formed the first high tide of the pure literary genres produced by literators in Chiese literary history, and it was an important literature phenomenon which should not be unnoticed in the entire literature of the Han Dynasty. However, there are few systematic and concrete studies on this literature phenomenon.Therefore, based on the previous studies, this thesis studies the production background, performance subject and the artistic characters of the palace literature of Emperor Wu in the Han Dynasty from the perspective of the basic materials. This thesis is organized as follows:In the part of introduction, a definition of the palace literature in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is given, its research background is outlined and the significance of writing this thesis is represented.In the first chapter, the reasons of the production of the palace literature in the period of the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is inspected. Its historical reason is the material and cultural accumulations in the early Western Han Dynasty, and the realistic reason is the grate interest of Emperor Wu and a series of his measures in promoting literature.In Chapter Two, the performance subjects in the palace literature of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is elaborated. These works mainly praised the prospect of the Han Dynasty, displayed the palace life, satirized the royal government failures and sighed with sadness of not being valued.In the third chapter, the artistic features of the palace literature in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is analyzed. The present study discusses its artistic features from the main five aspects: pursuing flowery language, good at elaboration, tremendous momentum, vivid images, and deep and sincere emotions.The significance of the palace literature in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the literary history is elaborated briefly in the last chapter, which is also a conclusion of the thesis.