| Cheng Keze, with the rending name of Zhou Liang and nickname Shi Qu, was born in Nan Hai Guangdong province. He got the first prize in the ninth year of Shun Zhi's examination. In 1660, he was conferred as a cabinet minister. In Kang Xi eighth year (1669), he was the major official in Shan Xi Hu Bu. And in the tenth year of Kang Xi, he became an official in Bing Bu. He went to work in Guilin as a district magistrate. Because of working too hard, he died in Quanzhou when he was 50 years old. Cheng Keze was born in Ming dynasty and died in Qing dynasty. His life story is a legendry.The poetry of Hai Ri Tang is his representative works. It was thought highly of in Ling Nan Parnassian Field. But it's very pity that his life story and his poetry were seldom studied systematically. So this paper, with Cheng Keze's HaiRiTang Poetry as the research target, is divided into two parts. In the first part, the writer studied his whole life, his traveling, thought and the cultural background of his times. The writer also studied the content, and art features of his poems as well as the shortcomings. The second part is the main part. The writer studied character collation and poems notation with almost 500 poems in the Poetry of Hai Ri Tang, hoping that people can know well of Cheng Keze and his poems. |