Research On Gao Buying’s "the Essential Points Of The Essay Of Tang And Song Dynasties"

Gao Buying is a disciple of Wu Rulun, who is a expert in classical Chinese literature belong to Tongcheng School, and Gao Buying is a famous scholar at the early of the Republican China."The Essential Points of The Essay of Tang and Song Dynasties" by him to select and annotate contains twelve volumes,two hundred and forty-eight articles of Tang and Song Dynasties, there are the articles, and the comments from writers of many period and Gao Buying himself, and detailed numerous annotations. The thesis bases on the text of "The Essential Points of The Essay of Tang and Song Dynasties", from which articles, comments and annotations to discuss the characteristic of the book and the literary thought of Gao Buying.The thesis consists of the introduction, main part and afterword.The foreword successively introduces Gao Buying’s life, the background about the selected topic and research on the topic, the research significance and the research idea, to look forward to the author and topics to a preliminary explanation.The first chapter of the thesis introductions of "The Essential Points of The Essay of Tang and Song Dynasties" selection, including its source in edition, style and background in writing. It is divided into the era background and academic background. The former study of the relations between "The Essential Points of The Essay of Tang and Song Dynasties" and The New Culture Movement, the latter mainly discusses the affect that "The Essential Points of The Essay of Tang and Song Dynasties" was Yao Nai’s "The Compilation of the Chinese Ancient Prose", so that the succession and breakthrough the latter from the former.The second chapter of the thesis studies these articles in "The Essential Points of The Essay of Tang and Song Dynasties", include the selection purpose, standard and characteristics and merits and demerits, and points out the purpose is "guide to learn", the standard is "save development outline", finally summarizes the characteristics is give consideration to prose and parallel and outstanding times representative and so on, besides point out some shortcomings,such as some famous articles unselect, epitaph articles are too much.The third chapter of the thesis studies the comments in "The Essential Points of The Essay of Tang and Song Dynasties". The chapter is divided into three sections, too. The first section combing the critics’ identity, and the relationship between them and Tongcheng school; the second section discusses the contents of the comments, points out the extensive content; the third section around the sectarian barriers to discuss the success and failure on the comment.The fourth chapter of the thesis studies the annotations in "The Essential Points of The Essay of Tang and Song Dynasties", the discuss consist of the content, standard and characteristic of annotation, points out its characteristic is wide and professional, but also the existence of defects.The fifth chapter of the thesis bases on the above discusses to sum the literary thought of Gao BuyingAt the end of the thesis is afterword, talks the effect and values of the book.