On Wang-anzhong Of Song Dynasty

Wang Anzhong, a quite controversial figure at the turn of the period from Northern Song Dynasty to Southern Song Dynasty, has been ignored by the academia. The literary value of his works also hasn't got their deserved unearthing, it was just described at one stroke by many kinds of literary histories and treatises, lacking of in-depth discussions. Wang Anzhong was famous for his Four-Six Prose during the period of Emperor Huizong, and he was praised as "A figure during Huizong Dynasty" since his prose is elegant, beautiful and luxuriant; His poems has its own characteristics too. This paper attempts to begin a comprehensive analysis and discussion on Wang Anzhong and his works, The paper is divided into four chapters. The first chapter generally examines and trims his whole life, especially stress on his moral quality, thinking, the historical evaluation on him is unfair; The second chapter dissertates his ci-poetry' content and its artistic features. his ci-poetry is abundant in content, its style features as serene, harmonious and graceful occasionally with a bold and unconstrained tint, its language is delicate and refined, worthy of reading; The third chapter talks about the content and artistic features of his Four-Six Prose.his works achievement is mainly reflected in formal official documents, such as the imperial decree, memorial and publishing notice etc. he wrote are mostly beautiful, luxuriant, balanced and coherent, and his epitaph inscriptions also have excellent articles. His language, with its own typical features, is either graceful and luxuriant, or plain and elegant, or grand and manifesting, and different content shows different style and features; The fourth chapter discusses his poem's content and features. The paper brings forward its opinion that Wang's poem is rich in content, like chanting, singing, appreciating, tour noting; its style is variant, sometimes vigorous and majestic, sometimes comely and joyful, sometimes plain and archaic, but all with mild and indirect traits, all making the temperament wavering. At last, evaluates and affirms the station of both him and his works in the literary history.