The Research On FanYe’s Literary Thought

Fan Ye " History of the Later Han Dynasty" is not only a historical book, also a very good literature.But many researchers put its historical value as the research direction and lack theory research on theliterary value. Even if there were some articles who have noticed Fan Ye’s literary thought, they didn’thave a detailed research." Talking about Fan ye’s orientation of thinking and writing from literaryachievements of The book of later Han Dynasty" which Liu Tao published on "Research of Ch inese Literature" think that: Fan ye worshipped Confucianism and advocated to evaluate historical figures andhistorical events on the basis of Confucian standards of character. Promoting to positively join in theworld, he strongly praised the loyalty of peole with lofty ideals and the noble spirit of the died pursuingthe loyalty, and severely criticized the ugly acts of those who were against the Confucian justice at theloss of dignity in pursuit of wealth."Literary Thoughts Reflected in Fan Ye’s History of the Eastern HanDynasty" which Guo Xuefeng and Wu Huaiyuan published on "Journal of Anhui AgriculturalUniversity(social science edition)" think that: Fan Ye had made biographies for many literature scholarsin Eastern Han Dynasty and recorded the numbers of their works and literary style.This paper analyzesthe cataloging styles, the works and the writer’s tasting of History of the Eastern Han Dynasty,elucidating not only the importance of Fan Ye’s attention to the social function of work, but also theidea of literature mining characteristics of the situation. And other articles from the writing, PianLitendency to analyze the " History of the Later Han Dynasty ", the author won’t give a concrete analysis.This article plans to begin with the " History of the Later Han Dynasty ",and with the letter whichFan Ye writted to his nephew in prison,to research Fan Ye’s literary thought. In combination withexisting research results, on the basis of the literary thought of Fan Ye fully discussed, hoping to fill thegap in the research of Fan Ye literary thought, and provide some useful help and reference for laterresearchers.The article adopts the method of work analysis and longitudinal comparison,and carries thecomprehensive analysis on he letter which Fan Ye writted to his nephew in prison and " History of theLater Han Dynasty ".Finally on the basis of the consequence, comparing Fan Ye literary thought withthe literary thought of Si Maqian and Ban Gu. Through comprehensive analysis of the Fan Ye works, theauthor finds that Fan Ye supported the theory of "Language can’t fully express meaning", and putforward the solution to the problem:" Articles should pay attention to their meaning, use language toexpress meaning", expressed his dissatisfaction with slick style of writing, and against the literarytendency of formalism; Sequence, statement, and praise have very strong literary color,in pursuit ofgentle;His works have obvious PianLi tendency, the most prominent symbol of words, the utilization ofthe whole sentence, but is not strictly a prose; A biography for those who are good at writing articles,collected their works, created "the biographies of iterati",he had a concept of consciousnessliterature.What is more,he has changed the current situation of "Attaches great importance to the moraland disdain literature"; According to the actual situation at the time, Fan Ye created the " Biographiesabout chastity of women", expanded the history of literature subject matter;" History of the later handynasty" that collected works of writers type has obvious sort, which showed that Fan Ye have theconsciousness of stylistic analysis. Fan Ye respected Confucianism and have some contempt to theBuddhism, which seen from Shen Yue"Song dynasty" about Fan Ye. The "history of the later handynasty"while there are many similar to Buddhism story plot, but this does not explain that Fan Ye is a devout buddhist. What is more important, the author thinks that the literature thoughts of Fan Ye havesome connection with "Jianan character",because Fan Ye gave them high praise, such as Cai Yong,CaiWenji and Kong Rong etc.Otherwise Fan Ye collected other writers and their works,from which we knowFan Ye appreciated "Jianan character".Cao Pi likes Jia Yi, Fan Ye also likes Jia Yi and compare his workto Jia Yi "theory of qin dynasty". Their emotional and ambition is also very similar, these are the signthat Fan Ye inherited "Jianan character". In addition, in the development of the rhythmic,Fan Yeplayed an important role in the process, and had a far-reaching influence on future generations. Manypeople think Shen Yue created the rhythmic,but the author opposed. In the letter which Fan Ye inprison wrote to his nephews put forward t his own theory which many years earlier than Shen Yue.Fan Ye has said that he felt shame as a astronomers,but the "history of the later han dynasty" wasa famous literary works, the literary thought it contains had a profound influence on later generations.