A Study On Xi Wen During The Period Of The Wei Jin And Southern And Northern Dynasties

Xi Wen is a kind of applied literature style, which was mainly used for condemn enemy militarily. And Xi Wen was also used to recruit officials, notice to people and so on, which has strong political color. As time develops, the stylistic functions of Xi Wen were enriched constantly. Especially its aesthetic function has becoming more and more prominent. Xi Wen has been continuous innovation in language and form,which was developing toward the direction of antithesis.The period of Wei Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties was a turbulent period of history, which was also an important period for the evolution of Xi Wen.The development and evolution of Xi Wen in this period had distinct characteristics of the times.During the Three Kindoms period, Xi Wen was freed from the bonds of Classics,and showed the features of unconventional. The authors often inputed their enthusiasm of serving the country and their strong political overtones when they wrote Xi Wen, which made Xi Wen had characteristics of the era of vigorous and generous. The artistic characteristic of Xi Wen was describing at great length, using numerous words, and grand momentum.During the Jin Dynasties, the number of Xi Wen articles were obviously increased, the subjects of the Xi Wen articles were constantly enriched, especially in Eastern Jin Dynasties, emerged new contents about daily life and battles between the Han nationality and the minorities. However, during the Jin Dynasties, the length of the Xi Wen articles was shorter, and the achievement of the Xi Wen articles is inferior to the period of Three Kindoms, in which most of the workers were accustomed to imitate the previous works. In the ideological and emotional aspects, the Xi Wen articles were lacking of determination and courage to fight the enemy, noble spirit,generous and vigorous characters. In this period, the authors added metaphysical words when they wrote the Xi Wen articles, which made the articles have philosophy thoughts, and enchaned the persuasive power of the articles. The style of the Xi Wen articles in this period is quite extravagant, which authors were generally using many techniques of expression, such as allusion, parallelism, antithesis, and comparaison.The degree of parallelism of Xi Wen was obvious. The literary aesthetics of Xi Wenwas enchanced.During The Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to the climate of political confusion, producing a large number of Xi Wen, which about the contents of the forces of the parties attacked each other. The length of the Xi Wen articles was longer,the language of the Xi Wen articles was more flowery, and the style of the Xi Wen articles was more magnificence. The authors who wrote the Xi Wen articles paid more attention to the skills in the form of the Xi Wen articles, such as rhythm, and parallelism. So the Xi Wen articles in this period evolved into the parallel style of Xi Wen. the Xi Wen articles that expresses other contents produced in this period, such as articles about the struggle between the Buddha and the devil, and articles express the author's inner through the form of Xi Wen.The evolution of Xi Wen had close relationship with the development of the background of times, Confucianism, Metaphysics, and Buddhism during the period of Wei Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. In this paper, on the one hand, analysis the content, form, artistic expression of the Xi Wen articles during the period. On the other hand, study the relationship between the Xi Wen articles during the period with the background of the times and social ideological trends. It found that Xi Wen evolved with the development of the times, with a distinctive mark of the times. the literature aesthetic appreciation of Xi Wen is constantly strengthened. Finally, it evolved into the parallel style of Xi Wen.