Research On Chen Fu's Poetry From The Perspective Of South And North Traffic In The Yuan Dynasty

Chen Fu was a native of Linhai,Zhejiang Province,and three volumes of his poetry were collected in the Siku Quanshu.There were nearly 300 poems,and more than 200 of them recorded his journeys.Among them,the Guan Guang Gao was written by Chen Fu when he finished his tenure served as the president of Shangcai College and leave to the capital for searching a job.The Jiao Zhou Gao was written on his way to Vietnam as the deputy envoy,and the poems that described his way to Shangjing in Yu Tang Gao were written during his tenure at Hanlin College.Chen Fu's poetry is a typical representative of the creation caused by the movement between the North and the South of literati in Yuan Dynasty.Through the analysis of the contents of these poems,this thesis explored the influence of the movement between the North and the South of literati on the literature in the domestic environment of the national unity and the smooth traffic in the Yuan Dynasty.The full text is composed of three parts:The first chapter mainly described Chen Fu's routes of hunting a job to Dadu,seving as a envoy from Dadu to Guangxi and going and back between Dadu and Shangjing.From the places of the route,it can be seen that Chen Fu rughly followed the north-south main lines of communication built during the Yuan Dynasty.In addition,the smooth domestic traffic also led Chen Fu to travel to different regions of the country.In his poems,Chen Fu wrote about the fast-flowing rivers,a sky of Yellow Sand in the north of Huai River and and the culture of learning in Dongping.He also wrote about the weather of frost and snow falling in June and the heavy rain without warning in the Dadu and Shangjing.Besides,the high mountains and rushing rivers,hot weather and dangerous miasma,women walking barefoot and many living habits such as eating betel nut in Lingnan were alsoincluded in his poems.All of these describes can make readers see the unique natural scenery and human customs.The second chapter mainly discussed the literary landscape in Chen Fu's poems,and takes Yueyang Tower,Yellow River and Taishan as examples.This paper made a detailed analysis of the Literary Landscape of humanity,the Literary landscape of nature and the Literary Landscape of nature and humanity through Chen Fu's poems.Comparing the poems of Chen Fu with those of the writers in the past dynasties,it can be known that every writers will have different geographical perceptions and humanistic imagination,and will have different feelings when facing same landscapes.As a southerner,Chen Fu was in a very disadvantageous political condition.In his poems,he not only amazed at the great landscape of the country,but also hoped that the king would appreciate him so as to make a contribution to the country.The third chapter mainly takes Chen Fu as the center to see the significant meaning of the north-south movement of literati to their works.In the works of the scholars at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty,especially those of Chen Fu,we can see that the developed transportation enabled the scholars to move freely,thus they came into contact with completely new and strange scenes.These experiences expanded the themes of their works,enriched their emotional experience and let their style of poetry blend the north-south features.Other scholars such as Wang Mengdou,Wang Yuanliang and Bai Pu also traveled between the north and the south in the early Yuan Dynasty.And in the same way,their literary works were also influenced by traffic.