“The Unique Character Of Tongcheng School”—The Research On Liu Kai And His Prose

Now there is not fully study about Liu Kai and his essay which belongs to Tongcheng School,In particular, the evaluation of the achievements of Liu Kai’s prose is quite different. This paper, by studying the scholastic and moral performance, friends, prose creation and practice,thoughts tendency four aspects, explore similarities and differences between Liu Kai and Tongcheng School, as far as possible objectively shows the writer’s writing style.The first chapter of Liu Kai’s family, birth year, and scholastic and moral performance, based on the accounts and friends’ records. The paper explores Liu Kai’s family style detailly; Previous studies of Liu Kai’s birth year existed a lot of questions.This article mainly from the friends of the Chen Shi rong’s records provides strong evidence;In the scholastic and moral performance’s aspect,Liu Kai is criticized by people at that time. Based on Liu Kai’s accounts and friends’ records, the writer studies the the scholastic and moral performance.The second chapter discusses Liu Kai’s social intercourse.On the basis of historical data, this paper write the Liu Kai’s chronicle. Liu Kai accepted setbacks, learned the different ways about others’ s poetry. At the same time, Liu Kai was fond of of social intercourse, ignoring faction.Long-term social intercourse and experiences made a profound impact on Liu Kai’s poetry and prose creation. Moreover,The third chapter analyse Liu Kai’ s prose creation, including two parts of the ancient prose and parallel prose. Through comparison with Yao Nai and others, Liu Kai inherited the views of Tongcheng School’ s prose theory and practice, also has his own unique achievement. Moreover,Liu Kai proposed the view that the ancient prose and parallel prose had the same root, and had a lot of creative practice.The fourth chapter studies Liu Kai’s mindset, mainly analyzing its idea about han, song and practice thoughts. Liu Kai explicitly put forward the thought of compatible with han and song,but not in the specific creation practice. Practice thoughts and practice is the pursuit of better as a scholar,with consistent advocate of Tongcheng School.Finally, the conclusion is that Liu Kai’s prose theory and practice formed itself features and different from Tongcheng School.Moreover, the scholastic and moral performance and thought tendency also different from Tongcheng School.So That Liu Kai is called the unique character inthe Tongcheng School has certain rationality.But Liu Kai’s prose creation also presents some problems, such as the thought content of thought is too single and the momentum is too prosperous, and they can not match, this is also the aspect that can not be ignored in Liu Kai’s research.