Research On The Auspicious Literature In Wei,Jin,the Northern And Southern Dynasties

Auspicious is the product of the development about the theory of yin-yang and five elements,the heaven-human induction,the prophecy weft and so on.It is a sign of auspiciousness whose mainly impact is to judge whether the monarch has benevolent rule.As the symbolize of emperors who were bearing the destiny of Nature,auspicious was so closely tied with politics.Until the Western Han Dynasty,auspicious who began an independent noun was in people's sight.The period of the Wei and Jin Dynasties was filled with instability,frequent natural disasters,war and imperial power to alternate frequently,and happened the phenomenon of the Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism coexistence.It had an easing cultural environment and was also a period of the metaphysics prevailing.In addition,the auspicious reign title,the community aristocracy of this period prompted the thought about auspiciousness to prevail.According to the three productions of Song-shu-Fu-rui-zhi,Wei-shu-Ling-zheng-zhi,and Nan-qi-shu-Xiang-rui-zhi,the total statistic of auspicious imago in this period is up to 193 kinds.Those auspicious imago mainly include five categories of astronomy,animal,plant,nature and special artifact.Although the abject of auspiciousness was mainly relating to royal and to politics closely,lots of auspicious literature is created.Because of the King think highly of it and official in feudal times catered to the King.The auspicious literature was in the subject matter of some auspicious phenomenon and took many forms with the theme of singing the praises.And it was full of rich politics meaning.The earliest auspicious literature traced back to "Feng shan wen" written by Sima Xiangru.According to the figures,there are 180 pieces auspicious articles in Wei,Jin,the Northern and Southern Dynasties.The attitude of the different employment standard of Cao Wei,Sun Wu,Shu Han was clearly expressed in the auspicious articles.Because of Wei Wen emperor took the place of Han Dynasty,his regime was short of legitimacy radically.The theme of Cao Wei auspicious literature highly emphasized the reasonability of emperor ascending.The Sun Wu emperors liked to use the propitious reign title.Theauspicious literature of Shu Han was to persuade such people to go up.The Buddhism thinking began to permeate the auspicious literature of Jin Dynasty.Hereto the auspicious literature was in further development.The theme of Wei,Jin,the Northern and Southern Dynasties auspicious literature was full of politics and served for the ruling class.In addition,it had a variety of styles to singing the praises and to pretend that everything was going well,extending the types of literature.Just because of this,the auspicious literature of this period has a unique literary position.It expanded the literature of early writing,promoted the development of literature at the time and has a profound effect on the later auspicious literature.