The Research On Prose Of Jia Zhi

Jia Zhi , one of the distinguished High and Middle Tang poets and prosers, had been Secretary and Secretary-general to the emperor for a long time, and was mainly in charge of drafting state announcement. Ninety-two pieces of prose and seventy-seven imperial edicts written by him have been handed down up to now. He actively advocated the revival of Confucianism and took education as his social role. His poetry writing followed Confucianism, opposed ostentatious style and aimed to moralize people. Jia zhi was one of the influential members of Xiao- Li Classical Prose Group. Taking Confucianism as a standard, his writing gradually evolved from the parallel to prose, which combined argumentation, emotion expression and narration together, and represented the peak of his prose composition. Jia Zhi was famous for his imperial edict. His innovation to imperial edict originated from Zhang Yue and Su Ting's. He endeavored to change couplet sentences to loose ones in sentence pattern and antithesis. Getting rid of ostentation and applying fewer allusions, he developed a concise and elegant style, facilitating the style innovation then. Jia Zhi drafted state announcement for the emperor so wonderfully that he proved to be an outstanding proser. In accordance with the trend, he advocated the revival of Confucianism and was good at reasoning and moving people with emotion. So his articles showed the royal majesty. Jia Zhi enjoyed high prestige in the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty. But due to severe losses, his articles were rarely discussed after Song Dynasty.