The Study Of Prefaces And Postscripts Of Li Po's Anthologies In Ming Dynasty

Li Po has a lofty position in the history of Chinese poetry.His unique personality charm and highly skilled poetry creation are admired by people.There have been many people who have studied Li Po's anthologies and wrote prefaces for his poetry.However,scholars have not paid enough attention to the prefaces and postscripts of Li Po's anthologies.The quantity and quality of his anthologies and its prefaces and postscripts in Ming Dynasty have developed compared with that of Tang,Song and Yuan Dynasties,which have their own characteristics that can not be ignored and have certain research value.In this paper,the prefaces and postscripts of Li Po's anthologies in Ming Dynasty are selected for systematic study.The paper consists of three chapters.The first chapter mainly combs Li Po's anthologies and its prefaces and postscripts before Ming Dynasty.In the Tang,Song and Yuan Dynasties,Li's poems were compiled by many people,with the largest number in Song Dynasty and the smallest in Tang Dynasty.In terms of quality,Song Dynasty had the most profound influence.Xiao Shiyun's Anonotation of Li Po's Poems by Segmengts in Yuan Dynasty had a huge influence,which was a large number of reprints for later generations.There are 10 prefaces and postscripts of Li Po's anthologies in three times.The Tang Dynasty mainly narrated the author's life,and the Song and Yuan Dynasties mostly narrated and compiled the reasons.Although the number of Li Po's anthologies and their prefaces and postscripts in these three periods is not large,they promoted the spread of Li Po's poems.The chapter two mainly analyzes the classification of prefaces and postscripts of Li Po's poems in Ming Dynasty and the reasons for its formation.Compared with the Tang,Song and Yuan Dynasties,the compilation of Li Po's anthologies in Ming Dynasty reached a new height: there were a large number of copies of Li Po's anthologies in Song and Yuan Dynasties,and a large number of anthologies of Li Po's and Tu Fu's appeared,up to 41 kinds.Although the influence of Li Po's anthologies compiled in Ming Dynasty is less than that compiled in Song Dynasty,the emergence of a large number of Li Po's anthologies still has great significance for the spread of Li Po's poems,among which many selected annotation books,such as Zhu Jian's Annotaotion of Li Po's poems and Hu Zhenheng's Li Shi Tong,have great influence.There were 39 prefaces and postscripts in Li Po's anthologies of Ming Dynasty,which were much more than that of the previous three generations.There are a lot of comments on Li Po and on Li Du,as well as textual research on the birthplace of Li Po,as is the case in Yang Shen's inscription of Li Shi Xuan.The third chapter mainly analyzes the internal relevance and its influence of prefaces and postscripts of Li Po's anthologies.Taking the prefaces and postscripts of Li Po's anthologies in Ming Dynasty as a whole,we can see that the author's evaluation of Li Po's is not only similar to that of predecessors,but also unique: in terms of consistency,the prefaces and postscripts of Li Po's anthologies in Ming Dynasty continue the evaluation of Li Po's by predecessors.On the whole,the understanding of Li Po's style of poetry is inseparable from "bold and unrestrained and elegant",lacking the specific perception of refinement.In the prefaces and postscripts,there are a lot of discussions on the merits and demerits of Li and Du,and many advocate that Li and Du should be paid equal attention to,even the preface to Li Hanlin's Complete anthologies of Parts by Wang Zhideng clearly hated Du and loved Li.And the prefaces and postscripts clearly pointed out that Li Po's poems originated from Wind and Elegance.In addition,the prefaces and postscripts of Li Po's anthologies in Ming Dynasty reflected the poetics view of people.In the prefaces and postscripts,they repeatedly emphasized the true nature and elegant meaning of Li Po's anthologies,and took Li's poetry as a learning model.This reflects that the evaluation and acceptance of Li Po's in the prefaces and postscripts of Li Po's poems in Ming Dynasty is basically consistent with the overall trend of literature in Ming Dynasty.The prefaces and postscripts of Li Po's poems of Ming Dynasty's evaluation of Li Po and other contents have certain positive significance for later generations to accept Li's poetry,promote the spread of Li Po's poems,and provide new ideas and guidance for readers to read Li's poems.For example,Zhu Daqi's preface to Li and Du's Shi Tong puts forward some suggestions for reading Li Po's Poems: to know his life experience,to be comprehensive,we must not give strained interpretations and draw farfetched analogies.