Research On Southern Cultural Psychology Of Nalan’s Poetry And Its Origin

The poetry in early stage of Qing dynasty is in a period of great prosperity after Shunzhi Emperor and Kangxi Emperor. Nalan xingde, honored as the best poet in Qing dynasty, played a very important role in the art history of Qing dynasty. He was born in an aristocratic family of Manchuria nationality, but he devoted himself to the culture of Han nationality in his whole life. In his short life of31years long, he made outstanding contributions to the enrichment of Chinese culture. He wrote a lot of famous poem and was best known for his works named "Yin Shui Ci". Wang Guowei said in his "Ren Jian Ci Hua" that Nalan Xingde observed things with a natural eye and expressed feelings with a natural tongue. He was able to be thus, sincere and true, because he had just entered the Central Plain and had not yet become contaminated by the style of the Han people. He has been the only outstanding poet since the Northern Song. Throughout his life, Nalan made outstanding achievements in poems and expressed himself in poems with natural and sad feeling. He, along with Chen Weisong and Zhu Yizun, were name as the best three poets in the early Qing dynasty. Although Nalan was a descendant of a northern nomadic people and spent his life in the north, he showed a deep southern cultural psychology. Recognition and inheriting of a culture would influence a poet’s thinking pattern, value and life style and response in his works. Nalan’s poem has showed a deep southern culture, so the research of embodiment and origin of the southern cultural psychology of his poem is the main part of this paper. This paper starts with probing the southern cultural characteristic, and explores the embodiment and origin of the southern cultural psychology of his poem. By comparing his poem of southern and northern style, this paper will discuss and interpret the embodiment and origin of the southern cultural psychology of his poem. This paper consists of three parts as below.In chapter Ⅰ, this paper deals with Nalan’s different writing style in southern and northern poem. His northern poem expresses his disaffection for real life, but his southern poem shows he looks on the north as his shelter for his soul. From this difference this paper explores the characteristic of the southern cultural psychology of his poem. He combines his spirit nature with beautiful southern scenery, and shows his feelings for the south in his poems.In chapter Ⅱ, this paper deals with the embodiment of the southern cultural psychology of his poem from three aspects.Firstly, the southern scenery and image. The varied southern image in Nalan’s poem shows his inward temper. And his special existence state and his deep thinking for his life made his unique literature psychology. In his poems of the southern images, he wrote freely of his inward temper and feelings experience, and showed his sad and dreary for individual existence.Secondly, the worship and love for the southern culture. He wrote a lot of poems to admire the southern scenery and culture in "Tong Zhi Tang Ji". This paper explores his ten pieces of "Meng Jiangnan" after he came to the south with the Emperor.Lastly, deep contact with local scholars of Han nationality in the south. Most of his friends were common scholars of Han nationality. A lot of his poems of friendship shows his admire for the character and talent of southern poets, such as his recommendation for Yan Shengsun, Gu Zhenguan, Jiang Chengyin and other poets of moral integrity, his recognition of homeland affections of Chen Weisong and Gu Zhenguan and his sympathy for Wu Zhaoqian. After many years of contact and help from the southern poets, he tried hard to learn and inherit the culture of Han nationality and acquired his writing style of "sad and firm"In chapter Ⅲ, this paper explores the origins of Nalan’s southern cultural psychology from six aspects, the influence of geographical complementary psychology, the recognition for the southern culture, the culture policy in early stage of Qing dynasty and fashion for the south, Nalan’s character and temperament, affections for Shen Wan, a talent woman in the south, the influence of "Hua Jian" poem and Li Yu on Nalan.