The Collation And Annotation Of Spring Grass Collected Poems

Wu Sidao, a disciple of both Zhao Xie and E Mengtang, is a litterateur of thelate Yuan and early Ming dynasties. He reached his political peak as the Head ofCounty, but was banished to Feng Yang county by the court in early Ming dynasty. Hewas seldom researched by the later generations because of his obscure life and theonly poems collection left to the world---Spring Grass Collection, which embodiedabout305poems. Recently, because of the great interest of poems researching ofYuan, Ming, Qing, the research paperworks about his poems increased. However, hisworks only appeared as special examples in other poets’s works. There are still muchroom for us to research, especially on the arrangement, revisement and explanation.So the author, humble and shallow, further discusses Wu and his poems in order toprovide others with some researching materials.The thesis consists of two parts about Wu and his poems. The first part issubdivided into five sections: section one involves Wu’lifetime and family. Theauthor starts from his poetry itself, combines with other relatedinformation, and investigates his poems mentioning his personalinformation to genetalize a whole picture of his life and family; sectiontwo is about his idea of making friends, which is summarized according to his poems;section three is the relations between his teachers and him. There are two mostimportant teachers in his life, Zhao Xie and E Mengtang, so this section relates histeachers and goes further to discuss their influences on his works; section four isarranged to discuss his achievements on calligraphy and Chinese painting. Wu is anoted painter, who has the same reputation as Ni Zan and Huang Gongwang. He isgood at composing poems with a painter’s eyes, therefore, the writer explores theinfluence of his calligraphy and painting on his poems by studying his achievementson alligraphy and painting; part five is about Spring Grass poems’ contents andfeatures, which are based on the social background during that period. The secondpart refers to the collation and annotation of Spring Grass poems. This part, based onComplete Library in the Four Branches of Literature, collates and annotates SpringGrass poems with Si Ming Cong Shu.