Jinan Poets Study

The author redefines the time and space concept of the important Jinan poetry group in Ming and Qing dynasty. In the scope of space, the city of an administration area is selected as the body to be studied, and the poets in the certain native place is analyzed and evaluated. Also the settler poets who lived here and wrote the poems are studied in this article. The author divides the development of the Jinan Poetry Group into three periods, which came from the year of HongZhi in Ming Dynasty to that of KangXi in Qing Dynasty. In these periods three poets, whose names were BianGong, LiPanlong and WangShizhen, are focused and the author deduces the evolving clue that the Jinan Poetry Group developed from the GuDan to the GeDiao, then to the ShenYun as the time went from Ming to Qing Dynasty. Therefore this treatise provides a new perspective for more integrally studying poems in Ming and Qing Dynasty.This treatise is intended to study the generality of Jinan Poetry Group in Ming and Qing dynasty with five parts and two forms in appendices.The introduction mainly introduces the name origin of Jinan Poetry Group and the criteria of redefinition in space and time, also including the status quo of other scholars' studies on the Jinan Poetry Group and its elites.The first chapter introduces its generality in the primary period, and especially emphasized the beautiful pattern and real emotion of Bian Gong and the ease styles of GuDan, who were the leaders of Jinan Poetry Group and their influences on other members in this period. Moreover, this chapter introduces other important members in this group such as Bian Xi, Yang Wei and Liu Tianmin.In the second chapter, the author illustrates the second period in which the Jinan Poetry Group thrived and its leader was Li Panlong. Li Panlong was the leader of all poets in the country and he proposed to return to the ancients, grand and sublime pattern. His charm absorbed a lot of poets such as Xu Bangcai, Yin Shidan, Xi Xu, Hua Ao, Gu Jizong, and the like. At this time, they followed Li Panlong and formed an elite group of Jinan Poetry Group.In the third chapter, the Jinan Poetry Group came into its golden ages in Qing dynasty. Wang Shizhen, its leader, made the verve becoming the mainstream of poems of the time due to his excellent achievement and comprehensive poem theories. At the same time, he was the dignitary and had enormous students and followers spreading over the country. So he undoubtedly became to the most famous master in poem groups of his time. The number of poets in his family and his students and followers was larger and these people achieved a lot.The conclusion sums up all the common attributes of Jinan Poetry Group and explains how the local tradition influenced the groups. Furthermore, the author deduces the explicit evolving clue of the poem groups. In sum, the Jinan Poetry Groups took the lead of their time and became the important signs of the flourishing Jinan literatures, even that of the flourishing QiLu literatures, and demonstrated the splendor of ShanDong poetry group in Ming and Qing dynasty.Forms in appendix list the names of members in Jinan Poetry Group from Ming dynasty to Qing dynasty. So they can make it easy for readers to get an intuitive comprehension on the structure of Jinan Poetry Group.