Study On Ouyang Xiu's Preface And Postscript

OuyangXiu's preface and postscript is one of his many genres,though this form of writing emerged dynasties before,he was the one who made it thrived.OuyangXiu,as the pedestal of the prose movement for the Northern Song Dynasty,his articles,without doubt,worth studying,as for his preface and postscript,also has undeniably merits.OuyangXiu's preface and postscript is wide in content and theme,constitutes significant philology and ideology values,by far,Ji Gu Lu Ba Wei has already been studied,yet the scattered pieces are remain undone.Therefore,this thesis will be based on the other 90 pieces,and study the specific substance,values,artistic characteristics of them,as well as how ZengGong inherited OuyangXiu's style of writing preface and postscript.The following thesis constitutes five sectionsChapter one,a probe into OuyangXiu's preface and postscript's creating general situation and catalogue.I will adumbrate preface and postscript arisen pre OuyangXiu,then introduce OuyangXiu's preface and postscript's general creating situation and his impact on the future generations through data collecting.On top of that,I will categorize OuyangXiu's preface and postscript into ‘recording socializing' ‘stating political opinion'‘appreciating arts' ‘recording documents' ‘commenting literature'and ‘recording textual research results' by their contents.With the citation of examples,we can comprehend OuyangXiu's preface and postscript's contents more thoroughly.Chapter two,the main ideology merits in Ouyang Xiu's preface and postscript,I will summarize the thoughts resided in OuyangXiu's preface and postscript on the account of the contents.In addition to that,I will classify them into philosophy thoughts,politics thoughts,scholarly thoughts,theories thoughts and artistic thoughts also I will analyze them alongside OuyangXiu's thoughts.Chapter three,an analysis of the OuyangXiu's preface and postscript's artistic characteristics,I will analyze OuyangXiu's preface and postscript from three aspects,presentation,rhetoric and language styles.OuyangXiuwas quite flexible and common when it comes to presentation and figure of speech and expression.He'sstraightforward and natural in language styles.Chapter four,a study of the documentation values comes within OuyangXiu's preface and postscript,I will divide them more accurately into historical values,emendation values,textual criticism values based on the documentation values so as to understand OuyangXiu's contributions and thoughts better.Chapter five,ZengGong and SuShi' succession of OuyangXiu's preface and postscript,Being one of OuyangXiu's most famous prodigies,ZengGong had a relatively close relationships with OuyangXiu,therefore influenced by OuyangXiu remarkably.SuShi,another heir.Although grow up to be his own litterateur,OuyangXiu still had a huge impact on him.Hence,I will explore this succession and development,from three aspects: theme and contents,writing patterns language styles.