Research On Zhang Juzheng's Poems

Zhang Juzheng is a famous statesman of the Ming Dynasty.Scholars pay most attention on his life experience and administration measures these years,and his literary works are hardly discussed.However his literary works,especially his poems,have important research value.Many of his whole 305 poems are appealing and highly literary.We can bring the literary value to light by systematically researching his poems,and know his particular mentality of different life affairs via his works' content.On the basis of our analysis of Zhang Juzheng's poems and his lifetime,we divide his writing into such stages as expressing ambition poems in his teenage years before becoming an official,poems for performing his duties and dealing with people when working in Hanlin Academy,poems about the nature and landscape when taking a leave for rest from imperial court in Jiangling,poems for the sake of fulfill tasks after returning to the royal court and poems aiming to please the emperor and the queen mother.According to themes and contents,his poems can be classified in 5 sorts.They are Under-ordered poems,farewell poems,landscape poems,poems from the heart and poems on history.His Under-ordered poems show a style of dignity and grace,and he prefer to use literary quotations about the immortals to create the dignified and graceful atmosphere.Zhang Juzheng makes friends so widely that he writes many farewell poems to his friends.These poems convey his sincere blessing for his colleagues,which contain different contents according to different objects and express diverse affections in accordance with varied scenes.Most of them are moving.The landscape poems are fresh,bright and clear,sometimes give a feeling of solemn and silence.Poetry from the heart is one of the most brilliant sorts.Some express emotions directly and show the sonorous and forceful momentum.Others voice his affections using the mild and roundaboutways.All of them contain deep feelings and have the power to touch people's heart.His poems on history mostly convey his opinions about the present affairs via stories on history.The artistic feature of Zhang Juzheng's poems are bright.For example,the words in poems are quaint including the nouns and adjectives.He applies many literary quotations and doesn't avoid repetition.The heavy use of allusions make his poems connotation-rich on the one hand.On the other hand it let his poems obscure and boring.Besides,he observes the rules and forms of classical poetic composition strictly.Each of his “modern style” poems meets strict tonal patterns and rhyme schemes,without exception.The artistic conceptions of his poems are varied.There are fresh,silent and magnificent conceptions.At last,Zhang Juzheng often emulates the ancients' words or ways to write poems.There is a obvious tendency to restore ancient ways in his poems.So that we can draw a conclusion that he belongs to the classical school.The scope of Zhang Juzheng's learning is wider than the one of the former and the later seven poets who advocate that people should learn the Han and Wei Dynasties' poems when they write the Pre-tang Poetry and learn the Prime Tang Dynasty's poems when writing the “modern style ” poetry.Zhang Juzheng learns the Song Dynasty's poems sometimes.The value of Zhang Juzheng's poems is discovered not in modern times but since their birth.Since their birth,they are appreciated and praised.The anthologists frequently select Zhang Juzheng's poems into their anthologies,and the scholars often make high evaluations about his poems.Anyhow,Zhang Juzheng's poems have high aesthetic value and historical cognition value.And Zhang Juzheng's poems have a far-reaching influence on later generations.