The Research On The Hermit Image In The Jing Lake Of Lu You's Poems

When the famous poet LuYou in his later years, he wrote many poems about a mysterious person who often plays bamboo flute and sings songs loudly in a boat in Jing lake, so we call the person"the hermit in the lake".Many people who had read the poems of LuYou were attracted by the mysterious hermit, so they wanted to know who he was and argued about it. The paper is just about that. With this question, at fist, I referred to the ideas of a few senior people. Then, I read the poems in detail, in order to find the reason why LuYou wrote such a character, and its quality and value.Series of poems about"the hermit in the lake"were found firstly by YangWanLi, then QianZhongLian noted the poems and indicated that these poems about the hermit could be looked as the same type. After reading the poems carefully, I made some research on the opinions of YuBeiShan and LiuLiMing, consulting LuYou's thought on retreat, with the conclusion that"the hermit in the lake"was a pursuit of the poet's ideals, that to say, the hermit was a ideal person who LuYou wanted to be. That showed the intellectuals in feudal society hesitated in enterprise and retreat, too. This paper trys to illustrate the background and condition about the generation of these poems. And it also trys to point out that,"the hermit in the lake"performs the image of"fisherman"in chinese classics who was used to show people's hesitation between going ahead to be an official and retreating to be buried alive.