Study On Poetry And Prose Of Cao Xuequan

Cao Xuequan is a great litterateur in Fujian during the latter Ming Dynasty. He promotes the development of literature and culture in Fujian province by his poetry creation practice. Therefore, the prosperous writing style situation formed in Fujian province. Cao Xuequan makes friends widely in the process of forming an association with poetry and liquor and exchanging ideas about the literary, he gestates an unique poetry views, including "advocating the disposition, upholding natural personality"; "advocating gentle, soft and honest sincere, honoring refined elegance and opposing Kitsch"; "Judging people by their poem and vice versa". Under this poetry theory's instruction, Cao creates massive poems about traveling and beautiful landscape, the current event, the expression of his emotion with odes to things and social life.Cao's poetic style is various, "gentle and gracious","feelingful","fresh and magnificent" are his poem's leading characteristics, but some of them present bleak, deep and powerful features. From his poetic forms,Cao is good at nearly all the genres.Cao Xuequan's existing prose is not very large in quantity, but the theme is mulriple,including miscellanea body prose, preface kind class prose, inscription on tablet, funeral orations, biography and descanting an object etc. People can get a holistic and general situation of creation through Cao's distinctive and colorful proses. Through excellent poetic and prose creation, Cao Xuequan establishes his position in the literary circles of the latter Ming Dynasty. And he also played a great role in Fujian province's cultural inheritance.