Liu Xiang, And Its Literary Achievements

Liu Xiang is a scholar in Chinese ancient classics and catalog who enjoys high fame as well as a litterateur who possess of high achievement both in the anaphase of XiHan dynasty and all the Chinese literature history. Whereas most researching about him had focused on his successes on classic and catalog, his accomplishment on the literature has been long neglected, which this thesis studies wholly. This thesis has four chapters mainly, includes his overall situation during all his life, his sensibility character, his works, his literature ideology, his memorials to the throne, and the writing specialties and narrate techniques of his works which named shuoyuan,Xinxu,Lienv zhuan.Chapter one: Liu Xiang is an imperial clansman, however his official career is full of frustrations. He leads to emendate the classics in the royalty for more than twenty years. Most of the classic we read today have ever been emended by him. At the same time, he also is a writer abounding in creationary. He has made many famous works during all his life, which left rarity information in the fields of history, philosophy, sociology, etc. What is more, there also are compelling literature achievement on them.Chapter two: As a famous scholar on the ancient books, his mentality of the academic and the literature has osculatory relationship. The characteristic of his academic mentality are his recognition on people under his "tian ren gan ying" thoughts and his width thoughts on academic. The worthiness of his literature ideology mostly shows in his high value on courtesy and moral , theidea on the literature sensibility, the idea on the style sort, and the idea on the "novel text sort", and the expatiated on the "novel notion ".Chapter three: His memorials to the throne holds multiplicity colors, among them we can see the elegance sayings which tell many things about divinity, and we also can see many vehemence sayings which straightly admonish. And the works also have profundity influence to the literature evolution afterworld.Chapter four: shuoyuan, Xinxu, Lienv zhuan are works which mixed many ancient recordation, and win attentions of many scholar during the past dynasties for their particularity on system. Comparing to the History, Some of Liuxing' story have different polts, some have different anamnesis tendency. The purpose of the writer is to illuminate political peace or turmoil, as well as help the emperor to be wiser distinguishing the different position. Further more, there is an art increase in Liu xiang's works at large.