The Research On Ou Yangxiu’s Ailei Works

As the leader of the poems innovation in Northern Song Dynasty, OuYang xiu’spoems, words and articles had made great achievements, especially his proses.OuYang xiu AiLei works accounts for more than seven percent of his proses.And likehis poems, the form and style of AiLei works shows significant reform and innovation,thus his AiLei works have great research value.AiLei works are the works about mourning the dead, they contain many differentpostures in the content and form. OuYang xiu AiLei works contain tombstone, epitaph,MuBiao, eulogy, XingZhuang, they are the common genres widely used in Tang andSong Dynasty. AiLei works were resplendent before in Six Dynasty, became prose inTang Dynasty,and returned to be resplendent in late Tang Dynasty and in the earlySong Dynasty.OuYangXiu inherited the spirit of HanYu’s prose campaign, on thebasis of"Shi Qian Zhi Sui",he built a reasonable and functional literary structure,andwere good at proposition, overall planning and comment, consequently formed hisstylisticfeatures.The depthof the theme, the content of connotation, the inclusion ofthe values which caused by Confucian, the decrease of expressing feelings rigidly,andthe boost of realistic narrative,all of those are the most important characteristicswhich constituted Ou Yangxiu’s AiLei paper content. The outstanding of Ou YangxiuAiLei paper’s art achievements are the combining of rhyme and prose, thetransformation of rhyme and prose,the combination of lyric,narrative andargumentative,and the variety of art practices.The concordance and unify of content and art, formed solemn, natural and gentle style. Specifically,his integrity contributedto the basic style of dignified and honest, his forthright personality contributed to theunassuming plain and natural style of his paper,and his rich emotional world facilitated the formation of gentle melody style. This style of OuYangxiu ‘s AiLei iscompletely consistent with his prose.OuYangxiu AiLei paper’s features of PianSan orthe combination of rhyme and prose,didn’t only impact on theYuanHaowen,OuYangxuan who are the representatives of Jin and Yuan writers,andimpacted GuiYouguang who is the representative of TangSongPai writers in MingDynasty and also affected YaoNai who is the representative of the TongChengPai，even the whole of the Qing Dynasty literary world.