The Research Of Tao Hongjing And His Collected Works

As a well-known Taoist during Six Dynasties, great attention had been paid to Tao Hongjing in the area of religion, but little in literature. Neither had people commented Tao's literature album, nor had particular researched up to now, so that some famous works on Tao Hongjing's album were not to be discovered, and nearly had been imperished. Therefore, in order to fill research's gap in the literature, and to make more people have chance to read his excellent works, I will do my best to explore Tao and his literature album from micro and macrio perspective and adopt literature criticism of document investigation, text research and anthology criticism. Firstly, I brushed and did textual research on Tao's works on the basis of forefathers, apprend some writing titles searched from ancient books to do concise investigation and illustrate ideas about some disputable works among later generation. Meanwhile, there were at least 56 conclusions on Tao's works that could be discerned and capture--d vaguely by people in our times. Secondly, I newly revised the collection of Tao Hongjing. Not only divided its style, such as divided poems into ancient poems and The beastles, added prayer and command, but included some newly-added works, which riched and consummated the collection further to make the later generation had a comprehensive knowledge about Tao Hongjing's works. Thirdly, the essay's focus was on the newly-revised Tao Hongjing's collection, and it divided the works into two blocks as poem and prose, expounded poems from the standpoints of form, technique and content to give priority to gvofgieen-sy, supplemented by mixed words, inserted prophecy and Buddha theory into poetry, filled with real sensibility,and unique mode items. To proses, classification was mostly base on style, making eight words to sum up their contents and styles. They were Fu——vigour sucked in universe and peripateticism long life; The articles to the emperor——attitude was solemn and respectful, language was circumspect and elegant, but not extravagant; Letters——devoted to mountain and adored immortality; Prefaces——expressed in profound thought and was good at fact and theory; Inscription on tabletes——literary grace with content, profound sensibility and elegance; Other articles——kinds of styles and numerous content. Besides, to the acceptance and communication of Tao's works, the essay was maily from the point of compiled collection and anthology criticism. Owing to Yi Heming, as a special works in collection, the thesis used the acceptance and spread of Yi Heming as title.It included reviewing and copying the content to ruptured cliff, writing poem to express their own sensibility; looking for original appearance of posy, exploring who calligraphed the posy; singing the good sight of Jiao Shan and spread the culture of Yi Heming. As a conclusion, the essay investigated the ancient famous writers interacting with Tao, the identity of objects was famous writers and their works relating to Tao's life. So it maily explored Tao's communication letters with Liangwu Lord, poetry and prose appointment between Shen Yue, and literature intercourse among Fan Yun and Yu Jianwu, probing into the influence in literature theory and composition, showing that the immortal ideology of Liangwu Lord, Fan Yun and Yu Jianwu in their poetry and prose were influenced by Tao Hongjing. However, at the same time, the characteristic represented in Tao Hongjing's poetry used rhyme liberty, length short and small, concise and fluent language was also obviously affected by Shen Yue legal theory.