The Study On Jin Shanxi Poet Group

Shanxi poets group with its great members takes up an importantplace in literary history of Jin dynasty. From the first year (1115) ofJin to its end (1234), Shanxi poets group of Jin dynasty has roughlyexperienced three periods: germination stage, forming stage andflourishing stage.85poets were included in this period. As the mostimportant literati group, they enriched the Jin literature with lots ofpoetry creation and made a profound impact on the Yuan dynasty andlater poet’s poetry. Their works left the posterity literati great fortuneand made a deep influence in Chinese history of literature. Thesystematic study of poets group in Jin dynasty lays a deep foundationfor the further research of the forming reasons of Shanxi regionalculture characteristics in Jin dynasty. It also serves as an importantsupplement for the study of ancient literature inheritance in Shanxiregion.Based on the perspective of “regional composite” and liststatistics research methods, this thesis systematically concludes thesituation of the formation and the communication responsory of Shanxi poets group to show the main formation process, situation ofcommunication responsory among poets in different period and theirmutual influences on the aesthetic orientation on poets and artisticstyle. I strive to make this thesis informative and elaborate.The formation background for Shanxi poets group in Jin dynasty isvery complicated and various. The blending of farming culture andthe nomadic culture, the interflow of Han culture and the minorityculture and the northern region’s regained central place in the end ofJin dynasty has provided befitting conditions for the germination,formation and development of Shanxi poets group. In the early yearsof Jin dynasty, several Shanxi poets successively appeared in theliterary world. Straight after that, Shanxi poets group began itsaggregation formation period. At the end of Jin dynasty, Shanxi poetsgroup’s creation reached its peak and left a great deal of excellentpoems.During each developmental period, there’s muchcommunication responsory among Shanxi poets group. Headed byYuan Haowen, poets in Shanxi formed kinds of relationship. Theybecame close friends, teachers and students and even formed poetryclub. They learn from each other and influence each other. Thoughsome of them imitated the Song style while some of them tended tothe Tang style, they all uphold the same poet’s aesthetic orientationand artistic style. That is the magnificent and reserved poetic style advocated by Yuan Haowen. This distinctive aesthetic orientationand artistic style is unique in Jin dynasty and played a leading part inthe establishment of the aesthetic criteria for poetry in Yuan dynasty.Its prestige and school’s influences on the later poets areimmeasurable.