A Study Of Lu Yun's Epistles

Lu Yun(262-303),literary scholar-dragon,known as "History of Qing Hanoi",is a native of Huating County,Wu County(now Songjiang County,Shanghai).He was born in the family of Wu State.His grandfather,Lu Xun,was a prime minister of Wu State.His father,Lu Kang,was a great Sima of Wu State.Brother Lu Ji was a famous scholar in the Western Jin Dynasty.Lu Yun is also good at composition.He and Lu Ji are called "Erlu".This paper consists of three parts: introduction,body and conclusion.The introduction mainly combs the current academic research on Lu Yun and gives a brief overview of the research methods.The main body is divided into four chapters.The first chapter discusses General introduction of Lu Yun.Firstly,it discusses the academic tradition and the family tradition of emphasizing Confucianism and upholding righteousness formed by the Lu family in its centuries of accumulation,as well as the great influence of these scholarship styles on Lu Yun;secondly,it briefly describes Lu Yun's life experience;finally,it discusses Lu Yun's Confucian,meritorious and metaphysical thoughts.The second chapter discusses the main contents of Lu Yun's letters.Lu Yun's letters include letters from Lu Yun and friends,and letters from Lu Yun and relatives.Letters with friends mainly include "and Zhu Guanglu book","and Zhang Guanglu book","and Yan Wanling book","and Dai Jifu book","and Yang Yanming book","Answer Che Mao'an book".Letters with relatives include "and brother plain book","and"and Lu Dian book".Through the analysis of these letters,we can get a glimpse of Lu Yun's mentality towards his country,relatives and friends,and see a scholar from the South who misses his country,misses his relatives and helps his friends.The third chapter discusses Lu Yun's literary thought of letters.Lu Yun's Plain Book with Brothers fully embodies his literary thoughts.From Lu Yun's view of creation,Lu Yun emphasizes the function of creation.The article should not only have aesthetic function,but also "relieve worries and forget sorrows".He believed that writing should be rigorous,carefully considered and written,and communicated with others and changed many times after the completion of writing.From the perspective of articles,Lu Yun requires careful reading of texts,reading articles from words and rhymes.He also thinks that the article is not expensive,should be elegant and beautiful,composition for work.From the aesthetic point of view of "Qing Province",Lu Yun proposed that articles should be naturally cleaned up in terms of text,language,and literary meaning,and that they should not be miscellaneous and lead to ambiguous and lengthy articles."Qing" is the beauty of nature.It is a natural charm of "no trace of carving,no trace of lead powder"."Provincial" is clean and not complicated,is a complement to "Qing".The aesthetics of "Qing Province" is not only reflected in Lu Yun's criticism of other articles,but also in his own creation.The fourth chapter discusses the artistic features of Lu Yun's letters.The artistic features of Lu Yun's letters are mainly embodied in four aspects: sentence variety,clever use of vocabulary,rich language and quotation of classics and allusions.First of all,Lu Yun's epistolary sentences are combined in a scattered way,making good use of questions;secondly,the use of adjectives,nouns and function words in Epistolary letters is very clever;thirdly,the language of epistolary letters is rich and colorful,or simple,or magnificent,which can not only lay out the story,but also make it simple and meaningful,and have great ability to change;fourthly,Lu Yun is good at using or transforming the language in the Book of Songs,and is also good at using allusions,not only.Increased the letter's sense of gravity,but also strengthened the letter's emotional strength.The concluding part mainly describes the literary value of Lu Yun's letters.According to the unique practicability and aesthetics of Lu Yun's letters,we can see the unique literary value of Lu Yun's letters.Firstly,the position of Lu Yun's letters in Epistolary prose of Wei and Jin Dynasties is determined from the data statistics.Secondly,Lu Yun's letters expand the writing space of letters and promote the development of epistolary prose in Wei and Jin Dynasties.Thirdly,the simple and natural language in Lu Yun's letters is unique in the literary circles of Wei and Jin Dynasties.Fourthly,Lu Yun's aesthetics of "Qing Province" is a reflection and correction of Taikang's literary style.Lastly,Lu Yun's literary thought had a great influence on the development of literary theory in Wei and Jin Dynasties.From this we can see that Lu Yun's letters have their own unique historical contribution and literary value in both the development of the style of letters and the construction of literary theory.