The Study Of Du Zhao <Zhong Wan Tang Shi Kou Tan Ji>

This paper is a comprehensive study of <Zhong Wan Tang Shi Kou Tan Ji>, which was compiled by Du Zhao and Du Tingzhu in early Qing Dynasty. This Tang poetry anthology had12volumes, compiled37poets’1594poems who were lived in the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty. Sequel other three volumes about76poets’poems265.So,the book selected113poet’s1859poems in the Middle and Late Tang dynasty. Through the comprehensive study of this anthology, we can get the following conclusions:There are two era reasons for the book generated:First, Kangxi’Favorites about the Tang peoms makes the school which like Tang poems win in the war between Tang poems and Song poems.This Provided spiritual guidance for the generation of the book. Second, people in Ming Dynasty pay too much emphasis on the early and prosperous period Tang poems made the scholars of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties criticized the poetics concept about "the flourishing Tang poems are the best"of the Ming Dynasty. A craze of paying attention to the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty poetry had been set off. It provided a public opinion support of the book to create.There are three direct reasons for the book generated:The poetics concept about "express the emotion" of Du Zhao’s two teachers Gu Zhenguan and Yan Shengsun affected him profoundly. Second, the poetics concept about "pay attentionto spirit and emotion" of Du Zhao. The third, Gu Zhenguan and Yan Shengsun’s rich collection of books and Du Zhao’s wealthy family.The compilers’motivation mainly from two aspects:First, in order to remedy the drawback of Gao Bing’s<Tang Shi Pin Hui> what is value the early and prosperous Tang Poetry when he compiled. The other is because Gao Bing only focused on the Tang poetry style, the two Mr.Du had to pay more attention to "artistic talent and emotion" of the Middle and Late Tang PoetryThe standard for compilation of the <Zhong Wan Tang Shi Kou Tan Ji> is from two angles:one is focusing to choose the poetry whose theme is focused on "artistic talent and emotion". The other is the type of poetry is focused on morden type, especially the qi yan.There are three points about the poetry content of <Zhong Wan Tang Shi Kou Tan Ji>need to tell: First, as for the selection of poets, the ten whose poetry had been selected the most in proper order are Bai Juyi、Li Shangyin、Wen Tingyu、Wang Jian、Li He、Du Mu、 Han Wo、Xu HunvZhang Ji and Zhang Hu. Among them, Bai Juyi、Wang Jia、Zhang Ji、Li He were the Middle Tang Dynasty Poem, the rest of the six were the Late Tang Dynasty poem. This shows that, the later prefered to write the poetry which with a style of "artistic talent and emotion" than the former.Secondly, as for the selection of the type of poetry, the large proportion of modern-style shows that the three poetry type which can reflect the "artistic talent and emotion" are wuyan Metrical、qiyan Metrical and qiyan Quatrains. And the ratio is3:2:2.Last, as for the distribution of subject matter, Love Poems and History-Nostalgia Poems selected most. Tt shows that there are two subjects which can reflect the "artistic talent and emotion"best:the Love Poems and History-Nostalgia Poems.There are four main achievements about<Zhong Wan Tang Shi Kou Tan Ji>:First, from so much the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty poetry, we realize its main mharacter is completely different from the "deep and implicit" of the early and prosperous Tang Poetry. It can provide a appropriate research perspective to realize the distinctive personal characteristics about the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty poems and poetry.Secondly, this anthology shows that wuyan Metrical、qiyan Metrical and qiyan Quatrains are the best poetry type which can reflect the "artistic talent and emotion", Meanwhile, their ability are more or less the same (because the three types’selected ratio is3:2:2).Third, this anthology shows the outstanding role and status of Love Poems and History-Nostalgia Poems when they reflect the "artistic talent and emotion"Fourth, as a anthology of Tang Dynasty poetry which compiled the most poetry preceded only by Gao Bing’s<Tang Shi Pin Hui>,it not only compiled so much poetry, more important is the poetry it compiled is all Middle and Late Tang Dynasty. It remedyed the drawback of Gao Bing’santhology about underrating the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty poetry overly.There are quite a lot defects and mistakes about<Zhong Wan Tang Shi Kou Tan Ji>, mainly as follows:First, the meaning of the compilation standard is fuzzy. Second, the range of selecting poems (ie, the starting age of Late Tang Dynasty) is vague. Third, the statement of reface is self-contradictory. Fourth, the real facts didn’t conform with the rules the reface established.Fifth, the arrangement of poets and poetry are both orderless.Conclusion:<Zhong Wan Tang Shi Kou Tan Ji> which was compiled by Du Zhao and Du Tingzhu, is an anthology with vision、ideas、achievements and value. In a sense,<Zhong Wan Tang Shi Kou Tan Ji>(15volumes) is the continuation of Gao Bing’s<Tang Shi Pin Hui>. Onlythe two anthologies combine together can build up an integral anthology which can reflect the Tang Dynasty’s whole aspect reasonablely.But,<Zhong Wan Tang Shi Kou Tan Ji> is an urgent works, so there are quite o lot of flaws and mistakes. It needs descendants to research and collate urgently.