The Artistic Origin Of Meng Haoran’s Poetry Writing

The academic study of MENG Haoran extends, research on acceptance of MENG Haoran has gradually become one of the hot spots. As for the artistic origin of MENG Haoran’s poetry writing, comprehensive summary is not enough. Through content and form of his poetry, it would be of vital use to find out what he learned from the historical and cultural factors, historical figures and natural landscape.First, Confucianism dominated MENG’s aggressive pursuit in life, and when he failed, Buddhist and Taoist culture encourage him to go on. He also inherited the tradition of various dynasties. Besides, MENG regarded many historical figures as his teachers on poetry writing, which include the songs’ writers of Chu such as QU Yuan, hermits such as PANG Shangchang and TAO Yuanming, landscape poets such as XIE Lingyun and so on. Last of all, thank to the help of nature, MENG’s poetry were different with many others in the glorious age of Tang Dynasty because of its delicacy and purity. The landscape of Xiangyang was the most important content to form his literary style. Nature near the capital Chang’an promoted his poetry creation about failure and disappointment. MENG’s poems show the natural beauty of Wuyue and his resilience, and so is the landscape of Hunan and Sichuan.