Wang Anshi And Word Study

There are just 29 pieces of Wang Anshi's Ci-poetries in "CompleteSong Ci-poetry" edited by Tang Guizhang. As a member of The eightTang-Song prose masters, Wang Anshi won a high reputation in hisportries, but not his Ci-poetries. After a systemic research and study onthese 29 pieces of Ci-portries, we found Wang Anshi's Ci-poetries has hisspecial charm, and it takes a share in Bei Song's Ci-poetry Era.Wang Anshi's Ci-poetries can be divided into five sorts: the historyCi-poetry, the leisurable Ci-poetry, the buddha Ci-poetry, the objectCi-poetry and the romantic Ci-poetry according to the content. What'smore, he created a special style that is the cento Ci-poetry. Wang Anshi'shistory Ci-poetry is forceful and vigorous; the leisurable Ci-poetry iscomfortable and elegant, which ponders to the meaning of life; thebuddha Ci-poetry collects plently of slangs and sutras, which is pellucidbut learned; the cento Ci-poetry introject peotry and Ci-poetry, createdplenty of good writings. Overview Wang Anshi's Ci-poetry, we can findmost of them are simple but elegant, abandoning the old habits in FiveDynasties. Wang Anshi tried to introject Poetry and Ci-poetry consciously,which broke the wall between poetry and Ci-poetry in content and style.Wang Anshi stands in the same high level as Su Shi and brings theCi-poetry into the unconstrained period.