Zhang Qianyi's Essay Study

Ancient Chinese literary theory has already been a profound knowledge nowadays,and writings-ology is a very important branch of ancient Chinese literary theory that develops well with the development of Chinese literature.It can't be denied that the appearance and improvement of writings-ology does help a lot to ancient Chinese literary theory.It was at the Qing dynasty writings and comments about writings-ology soared that maked the level of writings-ology to the peak.Zhang Qianyi's writings-ology conveyed by classic prose in Jianzhai was completed in just that dynasty.This work about Wenhua by Zhang Qianyi contains brilliant discuss covering most of aspects about writings-ology,and it was a representative of writings-ology in Qing dynasty.His idea of “writings are for conveying truth and to be sensible” was in keeping with the literary thought in Qing dynasty.This thesis explores Zhang Qianyi' s writings-ology thoughts to find its value in it referring to his Classic prose in Jianzhai.Above all,the first part introduces Zhang Qianyi's whole life and his thought conveyed by classic prose in Jianzhai in general with the attitude to learn its background.The next,the second part mainly produces the background about Zhang Qianyi's writings-ology and summarizes the characteristic of writings-ology in Qing dynasty.In Qing dynasty the characteristic of writings-ology mainly contained three aspects as below: advocating learning ancient confusion classics,speaking highly of Neo-Confusicism and pursuing the purity of articles.In the third part,the author explores Zhang Qianyi' s theory of Wen Tao in his Classic prose in Jianzhai.In the fourth part,the author explores Zhang Qianyi' s theory of literary virtue.In the fifth part,the author explores Zhang Qianyi' s theory of literary grammar.In the sixth part,the author explores Zhang Qianyi' s theory of stylistics.