A Study Of The Song Family Of The Song Dynasty And Its Achievements In The Ming And Qing Dynasties

In the end of Ming dynasty and the beginning of Qing dynasty, the Yunjian Literary School has higher voice in the field of literary. The Song family of Songjiang is one of the important members of Yunjian Literary School. The Song family sent the biggest literary contribution in the field of Ci-poetry. The family members are all very talented. They arranged a lot of literary activities, played important roles in the development of the Yunjian Literary School.The Song family lives in Songjiang. The family members were grown up under the influence of Songjiang literati. After the accumulation of generations, the Song family has a strong economic strength. Education was paid much more attention than ever in this family. Starting from the Ming dynasty, there are many famous characters in the Song family. Some members of the Song family became famous in the worlds of politics. Another member chose to become well-known in literary circles. They all made contributions to maintaining and improving the family's reputation. These forebears'political and literary achievements affect their children's literary creation and life choices.The family members gave respect to the different literary genres in the literary creation, including poetry, Ci-poetry and classical Chinese novel. The individual consciousness was shown in their works. The Song family's literary achievements were outstanding. They were at the time of writing very pay attention to inner feelings, and learn from the ancient classics. The family's literary tradition has the profound influence to all of the family's literary production. Ci-poetry's creation is an important part of the family literature system. Gradually literary activities in the Song family developed to the outside of the family. Song Zhengyu, Chen Zilong, and Li Wen, the three man's literary activities led the trend. The family members also launched and took part in the creation of<ChangHeShiYu>. The literary activity has greatly promoted the level of Yunjian Literary School's literary creation. It is of vital importance in the development of Yunjian Literary School.Generally, the family of ci-poetry creation has a typical style which was similar to Ci-poetry of South Tang Dynasty and North Song Dynasty. The family members used flowers and beauty to express their emotions in their literary creation. Usually, their emotions were very elegant and graceful. As we all know, the individual's talent and experience was different, so the family members'literary achievements were also different. Song Zhengyu is the most famous poet in the Song family. Song Zhengbi was good at poem theory, and performed well in creation. The other family members also have some outstanding works.The Song family's literary creations spread widely in the end of Ming dynasty and the beginning of Qing dynasty. The publication of their Ci-poetry made the Song family to keep the influence in the literary area during the Qing dynasty, and made their creations can spread so far. So we can say that the Song family's Ci-poetry creation was an important part of the family's literary achievement, also was the precious literary wealth in the end of Ming dynasty and the beginning of Qing dynasty.