Research On The Thought Of Modeling Tang Dynasty In Yang Zai's Poems

Yang Zai is one of the four great poets in Yuan dynasty, and people in the past took relatively less attention to him. In the Yuan Dynasty, modeling Tang as poetic vogue, Yang Zai was very careful about the methods on composing poems, and often talked about the methods on the poetry. He distinguished himself by learning the style of tang poetry, and was the great poet at the height of the Yuan Dynasty. By detailed analysis to Yang Zai's theoretical propositions and works, this article is to clarify the thought of modeling Tang Dynasty in Yang Zai's poems and its position in literary history, to have a more comprehensive understanding for such a great poet like Yang Zai.Yang Zai's inclination to model Tang and the unique feature in his poems make him an important position in the literary history of Yuan Dynasty. His poetry borrows from the great poets at the height of Tang Dynasty, especially taking Du Fu as a model, saying that the complete works of Du Fu is the culmination of poetry. Taking the poetry in Tang as the criterion, he made the detailed standards of creation, targeting at the four themes of the poetry "Farewell", "Chanting", "Advancement", and "Antiphony".When People said Yang Zai as one of the four great poets in Yuan dynasty, they would think of his poetic style "talented strong men", his poetry was forceful, elegant, upright and beautiful, washing away the drawback of late Song, such as frivolous, shabby and humble. He advocated that poems should have forceful horizontal momentum, and pursued the implicit beauty of "the refinement out of rhyme, and the spirit out of taste".When Yang Zai was young, he started to learn the methods of lushi in Tang Dynasty consciously, emphasized the methods on composing poems. He had ever made a selection of Tang Yin, so long ago and so far completely lost, but it showed his favor on the poems of Tang Dynasty. He was particularly paying attention to stylistic rules, exacting words, poetry forms to figure out and find the testimonies on composing poems in Tang.At the beginning of North-South mixing, the listless poetry style attracted a large number of poets such as Yang Zai to criticize the poetic style of"Si Ling", and"Jiang Hu". They are against the Si Ling poetry school for the slender habit of trifling with wind and rain and chanting the grappa bambu, at the same time, he advocated to write the enthusiastic poetry, and promoted the oscillation sharp, and clear elegant style of poetry, so does Yang Zai's Magnificent poetry style. Yang Zai had a considerable fame in Yuan Dynasty, especially the methods, and there are many people studying poetry with him, and played a great role on the formation of Yan You's elegant upright poetry style, and affected the poetic atmosphere of learning Tang in the Parnassus of the whole Ming Dynasty. He had a direct relationship with poem school in the middle of Fujian Province of the early Ming Dynasty, at that time and then, the subsequent poem school of Cha Ling, and the Seven Poetics were all followed by Yang Zai.Yang Zai set out to pursue the unique aesthetic Tang spirit and style with the whole life. In the retro wave of learning ancient style from modeling Tang in Yuan Dynasty poetry, Yang Zai and others were laying aside the drawbacks in the banner of retro, while facing with almost complete various types and style of poems since the Tang and Song Dynasty, in the form of retro for new change and innovation, he has initiated the poems in Yuan Dynasty. His poetry can be called masterpiece of the generation, on behalf of the Yuan Dynasty's grand voice. Such a poet of wealthy reputation, it is significant for descendants to have a more systematic study on his work and the theoretical methods of poetry.