Li Test Theory - Hainan Period

Li Guang, in 1106 of the Southern Song Dynasty, entered the highest imperial examination and became one of the successful candidates. Later, he was appointed as the Minister of Rites, the Minister of punishment and the Minster of Civil Office. In 1138, he was appointed as the Assistant of administrator. However, when he was in the peak period of his cause, due to dissatisfaction of Qin Hui traitorous acts, he was squeezed out by Qin Hui, and demoted to Tengzhou, and then was banished to Qiongzhou and Changhuajun. He had gone through a lot of sadness, and his family was broken up. But at that time, facing the grim party struggles and the fate of his own frustrations, Li Guang in Hainan could still write "Poems" and "Yi", and enjoyed himself to divert himself from sadness and tire. However, compared with the letters and the memorials to the emperor which were impassioned and expressed his ideas sharply, these poems were widely divergent in terms of content and style. There were some reasons. First, it can not separated from the intense and frequent Party struggles in the throughout Southern Song Dynasty. Second, it was also inseparable from the effect of "Learn for its own", the theory running through the life of exemplars in that time. Based on Li Guang' life and poetry series, and the analysis of the Poetry study and the Yi study, this paper puts the dynasty he lived in, his life and experiences in the process which reveals its inner characteristics, and then use the specific entries as examples to observe how Li Guang use "Poetry" and "Yi" to reflect his complicated inner world, which can manifest his strong life sense.