Tingjian Shu Xiu Creative Research

Huang Tingjiang was a famous poet and calligrapher in Beisong Dynasy, and enjoyed equal popularity as Su Shi did. Su Shi and Huang were called together as "Su Huang". Led by Huang Tingjian, the Jiangxi Poetry Sect is one of the most influential and the longest lasted poem schools in Chinese poetry history. In the first year under Shaosheng Regime (1905) of Emperor Zhezong of the Song Dynasy, Huang Tingjiang was banished from the court to the post of "Biejia" of Fuzhou (now Fuling of Chongqing) under the charge of false compiling of Record of Shenzong and then settled in Qianzhou (now Pengshui of Chongqing). Latter he was transferred to Rongzhou (now Yinbin of Cichuan) until the third year under Yuanfu regime (1100) when he was remitted and returned to the capital. He spent six years in Shu in exile. The life there deeply influenced his thinking, poetics, and the cultural creation. The period when he was in Shu could not be ignored when we study him. So, This paper consists of three parts as follows:Firstly, His banishment to his sticking to facts and closely related to the factional strife in the Northern Song Dynasty. Although he was in a devil of a hole, he was very disimpassioned, and comforted himself. He overcame his difficulties and held optimism by wring articles and communicating and teaching with the people who lived in Shu. So, he succeeded in calligraphy, poetics and writing. And at the same time, he contributed to the literature cultural business of Shu greatly.Secondly, when he was in Sichuan, Huang Tingjian brought forward a serial of theories such as the theory of characteristic and sensibility, the vulgar as the elegant and the old as the new, He stated much views anti ornate style, but advocated an ordinary, simple and natural style. By studying his degradation and thought in Shu. We emphasize the original reason of the common and natural poetics. And we fetch up the research of Huang's poesy in this thesis. At the end, we study Huang's literature creations in poesy, essay and articles when he was in Shu. We mainly analyse the source and characteristic of his poets, essays and articles. And thus we pointed out that the period when Huang was in Shu is very important to his literature creations of his whole life, whose status was like the turning point and a watershed-like point. In addition, by studying his essay creation when he was in Shu for the first step, we wish to do some contribution to the research of his essay creation.