The Study Of Tu Long And His Prose

Tu Long is the famous literati active in Jiajing and Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, he is also one of the five literati in Retro school. He is in the transition period in the middle and late Ming literature schools graded, he is a typical transitional scholar. He and retro litterateurs have cooperatives set activities and poetry communications. At the same time, he has a close relationship with the writer of Gong’an school. His prose view and prose creation are all influenced by retro and Gong’an school at that time. This article is based on the study of the basic problems of the life, the association and the writing of Tu Long, And on this basis, combs and analyses the prose theory and prose creation. Finally, through discussing the prose school ownership, restores his influence and status in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.This paper is divided into three parts: introduction, four chapters and conclusion.The introduction part through the summary of existing works and the research papers on Tu Long Prose, introduces the research status of his prose, and puts forward the significance and methods of the study.The first chapter talk about Tu long’s life, association and writings. Tu Long was born in famous family of Zhejiang Yongshang in Ming Dynasty, but Tu Long’s family is declining in Tu’s family. family’s decline, youth travel, both official, high moved return, indulge in Buddhism and Taoism are the true portrayal of his life. Tu long was associated with scholars of Wu and Retro school, the association is one of the important opportunity for the creation of prose. This part of Writing summarizes the spreading situation of his corpus, grasps the creation situation of Tu Long from the macroscopic. And then make a detailed analysis of his prose, including prose of the total amount and prose genres. The part put Tu Long prose creation under the special background of the Ming Dynasty. This chapter is the basic chapter of studying deeply on Tu long’s prose concept and prose creation.The second chapter discusses the prose theory of Tu Long. The part has Combed his concept of prose what was influenced by Retro and Gong’an schools. The prose concept which is under thebackground of Retro mainly displays in four aspects: the prose orientation of involving anything and improving everything; the prose creation view which is based on the history and fuses ideas into mind; the theory of belittling Han Yu; learn and praise Sima Qian. The prose outlook of soul,temperament and truth, What is under the background of spiritual literature. The last part is about the view of "the article can show the writer".The third Chapter. The study of Tu long prose creation. It’s mainly researching his preface,letter, biography, note paper, letter paper and characterization, essays and so on. His prose is practical and literary, he uses a lot of writing techniques. His prose has a very high literature value.The fourth chapter discriminate genre belonging of Tu long’s prose. This part analyses the genre appearance of transitional scholars that Tu Long as the representative. In order to understand this special group’s living condition, mentality track. Then from history books and collected works, look at the people how to position the Tu long. Finally from two aspects of prose concept and style, know the transitional feature of Tu Long prose. This feature inherits, corrects and innovates their prose theory, style of writing, grammar of two factions. The final conclusion is: Tu Long is a important transitional literati who is in Retro and Gong’an schools.The epilogue part Summarizes the status and influence of Tu Long prose in the middle and late Ming Dynasty literary world.