The Research On Wang Shizhen's Book Prefaces

Wang Shizhen had experienced three dynasties,Longqing,Wanli and Jiajing.He held the literary world for forty years,which had a great influence on the literature in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.there are 319 prefaces in the book,of which 177 are prefaces,which are stored in the YanZhou Four-Manuscript and The Continuation of Mountaineers in YanZhou.Wang Shizhen's book preface contains a lot of valuable information.The creation process is not only pure literary activities,but also academic exchanges and social interaction activities.However,there are only two papers focusing on Wang Shizhen's prefaces,and there is still a lot of room for his research.This thesis mainly takes Wang Shizhen's poems and essays as the research object,and explores the creative context,textual features and reflections on the literary ecology of Wang Shizhen's prefaces in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.The main content of this paper is divided into three chapters,with an appendix,punctuation proofreading,and collating 22 book prefaces,attached to the end.The first chapter explores the social situation and personal situation of Wang Shizhen's book preface creation.As a practical literary style with strong sociality,Wang Shizhen's book preface is deeply influenced by the trend of the times.The number of book prefaces is huge,and it is related to the people who are passionate about creating poetry,engraving and ordering in the Ming Dynasty.At the same time,influenced by the life experience of "multi-emotional change",the author's book preface is clearly divided into two periods.In the early years,Wang Shizhen's^concept changed from a meritorious service to a special study of literature,so he was keen to write book preface for the literati.He often criticized the views of the Tang and Song Dynasties and the poetry of Wuzhong in book preface,propagating the retro concept of literature.In his later years,Wang Shizhen was entertaining himself by writing a text.Although he was tired of writing book preface as a task,he wrote a lot of prefaces.Because he was a literary ally in his later years,he was dissatisfied with the arrogance of the literary world and opposed the battle of the portal.He wrote the book preface,for encouraging future generations of scholars,and attracting talents.The second chapter evaluates the textual features of Wang Shizhen's book preface.On the one hand,Wang Shizhen emphasized the law and submit the writing mode of the book preface,and formed 5 writing modes.Although the number of prefaces in the book is huge,the comments are beautiful and flawless,forming a certain writing method system.On the other hand,Wang Shizhen advocated that "there is no regulation,no clues to the rules",and created a lot of ingenuity.The writing strategy in his book prefaces is flexible,breaking the restrictions between different styles.The legendary brushwork writing mode of the book preface reflects the new changes in the preface of the Ming Dynasty.In the aspect of character portrayal,it is reasonable to fiction,highlighting the characteristics of the characters,and shaping the image of the Ming Dynasty who is arrogant and simple,and unrestrained.In terms of narrative,it is intended to be curious,good at rendering the environment,creating an atmosphere,and legendary.His book preface also embodies the side of Wang Shizhen's inundation and independence as a historian.It presents artistic features with both literary and historical knowledge.The third chapter mainly discusses Wang Shizhen's thinking on the interaction between imperial examination and literary ecology in his book preface.On the one hand,Wang Shizhen criticized the imperial examinations,because the imperial examination system has become a utilitarian.The scholars aim at pursuing fame and fortune.At the same time,in addition to the imperial examinations,a large group of mountain people was formed.They use poetry and literature as their profession,and their reputations are strong,and they continue to dry up.From a stylistic point of view,Wang Shizhen praised ancient Chinese and denounced the time and thought that the time is opposite to the ancient ones.However,Wang Shizhen affirmed the existence of the imperial examination system,and encouraged the literati to "require the system." The exercising of the imperial examination system "the poet thinks that the official position is the most important."Some officials in the middle of the Ming Dynasty held literary power.The literary world values whether the literati can obtain the official position.From the perspective of stylistics,Wang Shizhen thought that the ancient and contemporary literary creations were integrated.At present,there is no collation of Wang Shizhen's anthology in the academic circle.Therefore,there is an appendix at the end of the article.The school has compiled 22 prefaces of the book,in order to provide more intuitive and rich text materials for the study of the book.