The Han Poetry About Late Qing Dynasty Images In Early Mingzhi

Since the end of the tokugawa shogunate edo, the "seclusion system" was broken, some insight Japanese began to pay close attention to the Overseas world, and often had someone who traveled overseas and wrote down the records about the foreign experience. While the Japanese absorbed the western civilization positively, still considered the former "cultural motherland"—hina, led to take some references, they wanted to think about the future and destiny of Japan from China’s defeat, in1862, the government of tokugawa sent an envoy to Shanghai, it is the specific performance of this concern. After the Meiji restoration, Japanese of all levels was come to China continuously:officials went abroad and inspected, sending ambassadors to China, the private travel in China, students studying in China for further education, and the business of folk, these men who went to China had foundations of Chinese, while feeling of the foreign experience, many people used Chinese poetry to record their Chinese experiences. They depicted the China scenery and demonstrated the sentiment travelers and recorded that trip in their poems, and evaluated the political, economic, cultural and natural environment, social customs, etc.In this paper, I choose some Chinese poems which were written by Japanese people in Meiji period, to analyze the description of two kinds of "the image of China" in Chinese poetry:one is the positive images of beautiful mountains and rivers, and the long culture history; the other is negative images of the volatile political situation and the people’s destitute livelihood. The Japanese expressed affirmations and negations about "the image of China" in the poetry, some expressions are about the China’s objective description some have misread and prejudice. In Chinese poetry they show the disappointment about the present China and they see the distance between the China’s reality and the culture, their awareness of China has changed. This change has affected the view of China and influenced the modem Japanese view of China. Some other Japanese felt the decline of China culture, they even wanted to take in the Japanese culture to promote the modernization of Chinese culture.In short, the description of the images about the late of Qing Dynasty by Japanese poets in the Meiji is their society and times "the collective imagination", this observation have a close relationship with the changed view of China in later Japanese mind.