The Literary Reception And Reformation Of Luzhi And Quan Deyu's Parallel And Rhythmical Writing Of Zhaoming Wenxuan

Zhaoming Wenxuan(hereinafter referred to as Wenxuan)as a collection of the poems and essays,it has collected more than seven hundred literary works,which from the Pre-Qin Dynasty period to Liang Dynasty.It reflects the development and change of Chinese literary history from the ancient to the middle ages,embodies the change of literary ideas and the enrichment of literary expression forms,and has a wide and far-reaching influence on later generations.Wenxuan was very popular in the Tang dynasty,and its influence can be seen in many literati works and running through the Tang dynasty.The parallel and rhythmical writing of Luzhi and Quan Deyu were representative in the literary circles of the Middle Tang dynasty.Luzhi' s parallel and rhythmical writing changed the lyrical style of expression.Instead of delving into rhetoric and the arrangement of sentence patterns,Luzhi' s parallel and rhythmical writing laid out principles and discussed politics with the purpose of utilitarian expression.Quan Deyu' s parallel and rhythmical writing shows the trend of parallel prose diversification.Although his writing was the traditional style,he was writing a biography for the epitaph.He talked about parallel and scattered prose,paid attention to the function of the style,and broke through the previous formula of rhetorical rhetoric and flattery to the epitaph.The influence of Wenxuan on Luzhi and Quan Deyu' s procession of improving the parallel and rhythmical writing is the focus of this paper.The acceptance of Wenxuan by Luzhi and Quan Deyu is firstly the recognition of the literary concept of Wenxuan.The treatise of Wenxuan express the Confucian thought of literature which is "beautiful but not superficial,classic but not plain".Secondly,it inherits the previous parallel and rhythmical writing style.Wenxuan makes a detailed classification of styles and selects the works of writers who can represent this kind of style,which is of great reference value to the writing of later generations.The features of Fuliang' s and Renfang' s official writings can be seen in Luzhi' s parallel prose,and the inscriptions of Quan Deyu also have traces of returning to simplicity and learning from Caiyong and Wangjian' s writings.At the same time,Luzhi and Quan Deyu also made innovations and consciouslyavoided the drawbacks of previous generations' articles.Luzhi' s parallel prose was undisputed,simple and precise,and Quan Deyu' s inscriptions were honest and focused on memorizing facts.