Research On Wang Guowei's Renjian Ci

Wang Guowei's Renjian Ci is the practice of his lyrics thought, for a total of 115 lyrics. Its basic types can be divided by period and subject matter. Divided by period, basing on Chen Hongxiang's point of view, it is divided into spring and summer of 1904 to late spring of 1906, summer of 1906 to winter of 1907 and 1908 to early spring of 1909,1918 to 1920. Renjian Ci's style changes from Painful to desolate, to gentle and tranquil. The most outstanding feature on content of Renjian Ci is through lyrics expressing philosophy, containing Chinese and Western philosophy. Renjian Ci expresses the philosophy of "life is painful and short" by Chinese traditional ways. It also has the expression of Western philosophy, such as Schopenhauer's pessimistic philosophy of" life is painful" and Darwin's thought of natural selection theory. Renjian Ci has its own artistic feature. The first is artistic conception. Artistic conception theory lies at the core of Wang Guowei's Renjian Cihua. Wang Guowei also gives full attention to artistic conception of Renjian Ci. The artistic conception of Renjian Ci can be divided into imagine artistic conception and realistic artistic conception. And the two kind has description of event and scenery. The artistic conception of Renjian Ci is subtle and touching. The second is that Renjian Ci has the features of songs lyrics, poetic lyrics, description lyrics. But Renjian Ci doesn't belong to any one of them, it has unique nature.