The Study Of Suzhe's Historical Essays

Su Zhe (1039-1112) was a famous Chinese essayist in Song Dynasty. Due to his remarkable achievement in literature, Su Zhe and his father Su Xun, older brother Su Shi were considered as the top three literature masters in Song Dynasty. Historical theses took a great proportion in all Su Zhe's works, so the literary value of them is worthy to study. However, Su's theses have been ignored by the literature academic circle. This thesis will make effort to fill the blank of this subject, by analyzing Su Zhe's historical theses and the current academic research situation of Su's works. This thesis is mainly divided into three parts.The first part emphasizes on studying the ideological content in Su Zhe's historical theses. Su Zhe expressed his profound concerns in the historical figures in his theses. In his concerns, he wrote a lot of his subjective views, integrating with his understanding and compassion on historical figures. Also, he promoted his thinking of historical figures into self-review of his realistic life.The second part emphasizes on studying the artistic characteristics in Su Zhe's historical theses. This part carries on the discussion from four aspects:the conceptions of Su's historical theses, his writing techniques, structures and languages. In the process of discussion, the thesis consults the theories on artistic feature of Chinese classical literature, which had done by litterateurs in all ages. And by comparing the context of Su Zhe's historical theses, this thesis draws a comprehensive and fair conclusion.The third part emphasizes on studying the historical origins of Su Zhe's historical theses' literary style. The forming of his literary style was deeply associated with four historical origins:social environment, family knowledge, family education,'Zuo's Commentary','Intrigues of the Warring States' and so on. This part adopts the Chinese traditional "understand the writers and their times" as research method, trying to show the essential factors that affected Su's literary style in a comprehensive and complete way.