Song Wan’s Typical Significance In The Early Qing Dynasty’s Poetry Circles

In the revolution time of Ming and Qing Dynasty, as the one of the person whoenter into Qing Dynasty from Ming Dynasty, it’s worthy to pay attention to the SongWan’s experienced rough life, the pursuit in his poem and poem transmutation fromTang Dynasty to Song Dynasty. It contains some typical significance and it alsorepresents the self-conscious of those kinds of people in that time.First of all, the identity and experience of Song Wan contain some representativemeanings. As a royal heir of Ming Dynasty, his close kin sacrificed in fighting withQing Dynasty. Song Wan’s experience about hostility of his nation and family shouldbe more direct and impress than the others, but he choose to be an officer in QingDynasty by imperial examination again. This selection was not only self-behavior ofhimself but also represents a part of scholars in the former Dynasty who change theirstandpoint. A ingrained sedimentary deposit of Confucianism which contains a adageis “A good scholar will make an official.” But survey the whole political career ofSong Wan, he gained a little but suffered from the beginning to the end. Thisphenomenon was just a epitome of the Han Chinese in that time. Under thecoercion policy, the unjust verdict was very popular. Song Wan was captured to theprison for twice, the reasons were all related to the suspicious of governors, themiserable and influence of this situation also contains some representations.Secondly, the creation of his poem always pursue orthodox dignity affirmation ofpoetry, this creation was also coincide with the renaissance of traditional poetry at thebeginning of Qing Dynasty. According to the explanation of Song Wan’s poem, whenhe faced the hostility of his nation and family, he prefer song to cry, when he faced themiserable of prison, he choose control himself, when he was sent into exile, he chooseto enjoy himself in landscape, and he also choose gentle as his poem pursuit essenceby himself. The creation was tent to eliminate the disadvantage from Ming Dynasty toQing Dynasty, and it was also significant to present a new pursuit for beauty. At thesame time it was coincide with the social environment in the period of Shun Zhi andKang Xi, it was also contained a deeply affection.At last, the poem of Song Wan argue that there was a obvious transitive orbitfrom Tang Dynasty to Song Dynasty. According to the exploration to art characteristicof the creation in his poem and the comment to his poem and it can master the poemfrom glorious age of Tang Dynasty to miserable age of Tang Dynasty and then to the poetry in the age of Song Dynasty. This was also in accordance with break thetraditional obstacle from the Ming Dynasty to the beginning of Qing Dynasty.Especially, as the first poet of the Qing Dynasty and one of six high knowledgescholars, the process would say that this was a epitome of harsh change on poem inthat period of Qing Dynasty.