Xu Hun And The Culture Of Jiang Nan Region

Xu Hun tang is an outstanding poet in the later Tang Dynasty. Born into thearistocracy, Xu Hun pursues fame all his life. However, his official career was full offlections, which doomed him a wandering life. Jiang Nan hermit culture and Buddhistthoughts have a deep influence on him. He enjoys the music of nature. So, to be anofficial or not has become Xu Hun’s theme of life.He has a difficult way to enter the political stratum and the infinite love andyearning of hermit, which make him to travel around the whole country andthroughout most of the mountains. The rich experience makes Xu Hun anirreplaceable position in late Tang Dynasty. However, Xu Hun has received constantlycontroversy during one thousand years after his death. While it is the heated debatesthat push Ding Mao poem one thousand inheritances.Xu Hun is a typical poet of the South of Jiang Su province (Jiang Nan). So fromhis character to poetry creation take all the poetic temperament of the area. Theculture of Jiang Nan region shows that the rich poetic imagination. Meanwhile, thethick cultural atmosphere also endowed with his Ding Mao poem another lastingappeal, Ding Mao poetry also gave humanity in new interpretation and poeticyearning.In that stormy times of the late Tang Dynasty, rule the world of Confucian ideal,natural Buddhist philosophy, and the moving poetry have connected with the poet’sunordinary life. The Ding Mao poems with its variety of themes, the borrowing ofmellow, refining of the words, the unique image and its and Jang Nan regional culturein the late Tang Dynasty make the Ding Mao poet indissoluble of its own, hasfar-reaching influence on later generations.