The Research Of Poems On Mount Heng In Song Dynasty

According to the author's collection and statistics,there are 533 poems on Mount Heng in the Song Dynasty,the number of which greatly exceeded that of the previous generation.The considerable increase can be explained by the following two reasons concerning its creation background: first,significant changes in social conditions are considered critical factors promoting the rapid increase of poetry on Mount Heng,including the water and land traffic conditions which were more convenient and developed,the regional development brought by the South Song Dynasty,the social atmosphere of literary and artistic creation under the political influence,the stable religious culture and so on;second,owing its unique development patterns,the ancient Chinese landscape poetry has formed unique artistic style in the Song Dynasty.It is an important reason why Mount Heng poetry in Song Dynasty grew to be more extensive in scope and more sophisticated in artistic techniques.The wonderful and beautiful mountain scenery is a major feature of Mount Heng.From the perspective of ideological theme,there are poems praising the scenery of Mount Heng or chanting wind and moon,poems expressing one's emotions evoked by the scenery,and poems written to express certain feelings for friends and relatives.The poets' rich mental world is integrated with the wonderful and beautiful mountain scenery,bringing us a large amount of mountain poems which are highly aesthetic and infectious.At the same time,through these poems we can feel the strong humanistic atmosphere of Mount Heng in that era,the true reflection of historical events in such poetry,and the rich emotional world of poets.The artistic features of poetry on Mount Heng in the Song Dynasty are also very prominent.In the description of the scenery,the poets present diversified and unique images of Mount Heng,such as meteorology,plant,spots of cultural attractions.In addition,techniques including flexible and tactful analogy,dramatic exaggeration of imagination,sharp contrast and implicit contrast conveyed through concise terms are widely used.These artistic techniques combine the subjective feeling and the scene description,presenting the readers scenes which are vivid and full of spirituality,images with the unique nature of the mountains,and styles which are either grand,gentle or exquisite.The unique aesthetics greatly enhance the artistic charm of the poetry,endowing the Mount Heng poetry with a variety of artistic features.Poetry on Mount Heng in Song Dynasty is a very good inheritance and practice of ancient Chinese landscape poetry creation,which reflects the mature state of Chinese landscape poetry creation.As far as the history of Mount Heng poetry is concerned,in Song Dynasty the integrated and independent development of the three religions of Confucianism,Taoism and Buddhism in Mount Heng,Nanyue,has been established,thanks to which Mount Heng has become a culturally admirable spot in real sense and attracted many famous monks and literati nationwide,henceforth poetry on Mount Heng ushered in a period of prosperity.