A Study Of Huang Jie’s Poetics On Han Wei And Six Dynasties

Huang Jie(1873-1935),one of the most important poems and theoreticians in modern literary history, was famous for his Jianjialou Poems and The Annotation of Han and Wei Dynasties’Yue-Fu Allegorical Poetry.The objiects of the dissertation are Huang Jie’s Notes and Commentaries of Han and Wei s Yue-Fu poetry.Notes of Wei Wudi and Wei Wendi’s poetry,Notes of Cao Zijian’s poetry,Notes of Ruan Bubing’s poetry and Notes of Xie Kangle’s poetry,Huang Jie’s own works such as Jianjialou Poetry and Notes on Three Poets’works were also included.The author attempts to disscuss Huang Jie’s poetic theory of Han and Wei and Six Dynasties and to investigate the inclinations and affections of Huang Jie from analysing all these woks above,in order to explain the great contribution he made for the modern acdemic history in the end.In the first chapter,the author investigates the changes of Huang Jie’s thought during the dynasty of late Ching and ROC.Huang Jie established Zheng Yi Tong Bao and Guo Cui Xue Bao with his schoolmate Deng Shi in Shanghai in1902to propagate Revolutionary ideas.He composed The History of Huang to advocate the patriotic spirit, the honor of ethnic and the preservation of the national heritages,devoted himself to the career of enlightenment and education After the Revolution of1911,the Qing Dynasty was overthrown,Huang Jie went to Beiping.The government’ tyranny and the country’s wars broke his heart,and his arrogant personality aggravated his sorrow. Under the circumstances,Huang rejected to participate in political affairs but to devote his energy to reading poems,analysing poems and composing poems,hoping to ameliorate people’s temperament and to made contribution to political scene.In the second chapter,the author discusses Huang Jie’s Yue-Fu theory which expressed in The annotation of Han and Wei dynasties’Yue-Fu allegorical poetry.Huang Jie classified Han and Wei dynasties’Yue-Fu allegorical poetry into Feng,Ya and Song, which dirived from The Book of Songs.Huang considered the songs of Xianghe and Zaqu to be similar to the songs of Feng in The Book of Songs.This thought originated from Maoshi Xu and Zhu Zhixi’s Yue-Fu Guang Xu.Zhu’s book explained the poems by writing introductions,and pointed out the moral factors in the poems.Huang Jie agreed with Zhu’s opinions and emphasized the moral factors of these poems in order to express his comment on social reality.Besides,Huang Jie probed into the evolution of Yue-Fu poetry during the Han and Wei Dynasties.He held the opinion that the most valuable character of Yue-Fu poetry in Han Dynasty was the building of the special institution Yue-Fu to collect songs from the whole society.In Wei Dynasty,the aristocracy turned the Yue-Fu poetry from popular songs into author’s poems,but the moral factors still preserved.In Song Dynasty,the imitation works of Yue-Fu focused just on appearance and form,so the most valuable characters of Yue-Fu poetry had been losted.Huang Jie’s book is a important work about Yue-Fu poetry in mordern academic history.Huang Jie’s student Xiao Difei wrote the book The History of Yue-Fu poetry of Han and Wei and Six Dynasties,which developed Huang Jie’s opinions,was also a outstanding work about Yue-Fu poetry in moedern academic world.