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Wang Can Ideological And Literary Creation

Posted on:2005-07-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y LvFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360152466494Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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In Jian-an time, "living value and belief, behavior standard, inter-person relationship, and living style were pursued and judged again with no tendency and different interests" . Based on social politic changes and difficulties in life, Wang can's political argument, mainly of Confucianism, showed a large variety of features of age, with the union of positive factors in Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism and so on in it However, influenced by non-restriction and practical spirit in Cao cao, Wangs argument was found rational and flexible in reality with both Confucianism and Legalism in itWang carrs life generally includes two periods: living in Jingzhou as a fugitive and surrendering to Cao cao, during which his writing style and achievement greatly differ. Wang's works, full of solemnness and bitterness, were reviewed mainly to be bleak and disconsolate. Yet it is not thorough if used to conclude his whole works. Qi-Ai Poem and Deng-Lou Ode written in his earlier life, were full of bitterness, solemnness and pity for himself, which is vivid description of his situation and feeling of earlier life. Later on, promoted to government officials by Cao, busy with the system of construction, Wang hadrrt written such worrying thoughtful works and more as Qi-Ai Poem and Deng-Lou Ode. His independent personality and worrying awareness descended as a servant writer, who wrote Tai-Miao Ode and Yu-er Dance and Song, most of which were written for praising the authority in accordant with the favor of the government However, what showed bis sense and feeling in Joining Army Poem, his grand and heroic spirits in Jian-an time set the central theme for his poem: it is optimistic, enterprising and positive, which expressed the personality and feeling of a writer in troubled time. In general, Wang achieved more in literature in his earlier life than in his later life. His earlier creations were valued more.Column seven in Selection of Ancient Poem of Cai Jiao-tang by Chen Zuo-ming commented on Wangç±¹ poem in lacking in free flow and being rich in true feeling. Cao pi also put "Wang can is good at writing ode and poem, feeling pity for lacking in imposing manner" ( <> ). Differ from those in Jian-an time, which writing style was emphasized traditionally, Wang's works, which are quite solemn and stirring, but attractive for description of true feeling, especially the expression of bitterness. Inheriting the traditional idea of aesthetics, he led the theme of bitterness to all levels nature, society and individual involved, widen the range and depth literature expresses and formed instinctivetheme of bittemess, which promoted the historic change of ode and poem in Jian-an time from expressing ambition to resulting from feeling.Jian-an is the important period which writing style changes and Wang can is the key person who represents this change, his odes describing objects refreshing and beautiful, his lyric odes well-structured and genuine feeling concerned. Wang's odes were written in the way he created poetry, short in form and rich in content, bitter in sense and tragic in emotion. Deng-Lou Ode shows his highest achievements in ode, which is the famous lyric ode in history, therefore, it sets the high position for him in ode of Jian-an time even in the history of ode creation. Liu xie regarded it as the prime one during Wei and Jin. Deng-Lou Ode also marks the change from ode to poetry.With the background of rivalry of the powerful at the final stage Han Dynasty, adapting the layout of traditional history books, Records of Heroes at the Final Stage of Han records what happened in Han, before Cao cao united the north, which shows Wang's thorough reflection on the concept of "hero" under new history conditions.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wang can, union of Confucianism and Legalism, bitterness and melancholy in poem, prime ode in Wei and Jin, Records of Heroes at the Final Stage of Han
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