Study On The History Of Acceptance Of Xikun Style During Song, Jin And Yuan Dynasties

typical Xikun style poems existed only in A Collection for Xikun Poems. In Xikun responding stages, poetic styles of Yang Yi etc., had made differences from Xikun style. The latter Xikun poets and students of Yang Yi and Liu Yun etc. were affected by Xikun style, but not all of their poems were Xikun style works. Varied comments on Xikun style were made by literators in the early period of Northern Song Dynasty. It has been applauded by Tian Kuang and Zhang Fangping. while critcized by Yao Xuan, Shi Jie and Mei Yaochen. Ouyang Xiu praised Yang and Liu’s literary talent and erudition, however, Xikun poetry that chanted things in terms of familiar words, was one of reform objects of Baizhan Style of Song Dynasty, which is writen firstly by Ouyang Xiu. In addition, the attack to A Collection for Xikun Poems and injunction against flashy style in imperial examination from government led to the limitation of influence of Xikun style. With the increasing influence of Xikun style, the meaning of the word "Xikun" increasingly rich, including Xikun poetry and Li Shangyin’s poetry, which made the acceptance of Xikun style more complex.In the middle and late period of Northern Song Dynasty, the acceptance of Xikun style included creative and theoretical way. Su Shi and Lu Tian’s poems were influenced by Xikun style, but weren’t parallel with Xikun poems. Works of Huang Tingjian were more similar with Xikun poems than Su Shi and Lu Tian’s. Su Shi’s poems contained a large number of allusions, but he paid attention to the poetic gist; because of same fear of poem case, environment of composing between Huang Tingjian and Xikun poets, led to the similarity of using of allusions between them, and Huang Tingjian’s poems describing objects used similar method which did not say the body but the features of things as Xikun poets have used. Lu Tian’s poems and Xikun poems are similar in using of allusions, but wider in aesthetic ambit than Xikun poems’. In theoretical way, the repudiation to Xikun style made by Wang Anshi, Liu Ban, Su Shi and Zhang Biaochen etc. were mixed up with affirmation, while attitudes of Huang Shu, Wang Dechen. Wei Tai, Cai Juhou etc. to Xikun style were purely negative.The position of Xikun poems between high-level Tang poetry and Song poetry had effected the attitude of critics to Xikun style in Southern Song Dynasty. Zhang Yuangan and Wei Liaoweng believed that Xikun poems were low-level works, while Zhu Xi, Feng Qufei etc. thought that Xikun style was a hinge in the process of transformation of poems’style from Tang Dynasty to Song Dynasty, both attitudes can be found in Liu Kezhuang’s theory. In addition, criticism of Lu You, Du Zhan and Fang Yue etc. to Xikun style were directed against its aesthetic style; the Xikun responding seemed as a glorious event in flourishing age to Zhou Bida; Lin Xiyi affirmed Xikun poets’achievement in Qilv. The acceptances of Xikun style in Southern Song Dynasty were more deep and various than Nouthern Song Dynasty.During the period of Jin and Yuan Dynasty, the most important accepter to Xikun style was Fang Hui. He put forward the theme of "three styles in early Song Dynasty". He said that the Xikun style in the history of poetry in the Tang and Song Dynasty was a special faction, and sorted out the history of Xikun poetry from Yang, Liu’s time until Lu Tian’s. Those he did have played an important part in the history of acceptance of Xikun style, and effceted the acceptance after his time. Besides, he summed up the characteristics of Xikun poems as using allusions, antithesis and rhetoric, which led to the lack of their flavor. In the Jin Dynasty, as poets who emphasized the importance of content of poem, Wang Ruoxu and Li Chunfu didn’t agree with Xikun posts’excessive use of allusions and and simulation to Li Shangyin. In the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Xun pointed out that Ou Yangxiu’s poems was effected by Xikun style, while Yuan Jue believed that Ou Yangxiu’s poems changed Xikun style with natural characteristics. Both opinions were rational.