The Chronicle Biography Of Jie Xi Si

JieXiSi, style ManShou, was born in longxing fuzhou(now in Fengcheng city in Jiangxi province) in 1274and died in 1344.Jiexisi studied JINGSHIZIJI at 5 years old from his father,at young he was well known. At 15 years old he must go out to work for food because of poor. He became a HANLINBIANXIU in GUOSHIYUAN. At seventy years old he was a ZONGCAI and compiled LIAO,JIN,SONG three history books with others. Finally, he died in his work.Jiexisi is one of the "Four Great Poets in Yuan Dynasty", and is not only a poet but a prosaic expert. His poetic fame is so widespread that his prosaic works are neglected and become a blank in the study of Jiexisi. JieXisi was a Confucian scholar. His thinking on poetry creation belongs to Confucianism . He looked up to the doctrine of Confucius and mencius, he also canonized the poetry creation rule of Confucius JieXiSi advocated that poetry should be elegant and complied to rule of poetry creation. Most of his poetry had some realist motives.Jiexisi poem creation was the single in the literature circle of the Yuan Dynasty. The Taoist tendency of creation held a great margin in his poems, which was the expression of lots of men of letters internal world in the Yuan Dynasty. His prose has powerful artistic charm, and deeply affects the prose in yuan Dynasty and the literary concept shown in his works to favor the tradition, becomes the foresight of "seven Men" in Ming Dynasty advocating the doctrine of "back to the ancients". In a word, the textual research on the chronology of Jie's life and experience will help to make a deep study on the real position of literature about Yuan Dynasty and other related historical events.This chronicle biography tries to widely collect the data of jiexisi's life and experience, his family circumstance, his intercourse as well as related historical material, in order to sort out, verify and finally make a textual research of them .The main researches as follow:â… . Basically sorting the chronology of jiexisi's life and experience, and having made some explanations and proofreading about some non-detailed and ambivalent issues.â…¡. Making some collection and verification on the intercourse of jiexisi's, and others related experience of his mentor and friends as well.â…¢. Sorting out his works in order of time.â…£. Collecting other related information in the hope of truly reflecting the real picture of the time he lived.â…¤. Attaching to collecting and sorting out the related data so as to play a fundamental and data-availed role in Jiexisi's research.