Study Of The Monograph Of Yuefu Poems Chanting Ming History In Early Qing Dynasty

Yuefu poems chanting Ming history is the epic poems that use the poetic style of Yuefu,which is only chanting Ming history.In the early Qing Dynasty,under the background of the alternation of the new and the old dynasties,because of the tide of Ming history,the stimulation of the Qing government’s cultural policy,the development of Yuefu poems chanting history,the creation of Yuefu poems chanting Ming history flourish,and in the periods of Shunzhi and Kangxi,there are many large-scale series of poems.Among them,"the Current Yuefu","the New Yuefu Ci" "the Imitation of Poems Chanting Ming History" and "the New Poems Chanting History of Cicun",that handed down in the form of an monograph can be called representative work.The authors of these four works have different social identity,different historical activities,so that their motivations for the creation is different,and the works of the same type have their own characteristics.But,in the thought connotation,the poets all record the history by poems,recall Ming Dynasty figures and events;reward virtue and punish vice,champion the ethics and discuss history with poems,look for the historical law.At the same time,in the art of poetry,the monographs of poetry are all the New Yuefu that named after history,the composition of the poems is rigorous,and their have prosaic interpretation of titles or poetic preface or poetic annotations combined with poetic verses,so that the content of the monographic series is clear and rich.The Poets also commonly use contrastive and ironic technique in their poems,and their Yuefu poems chanting Ming history also show narration with discussion history-intoned style,elegant and refined language style.These monographs of Yuefu poems chanting Ming history in early Qing Dynasty,although negatively influenced by policies such as literary inquisition,but under the influence of some circles’ interflow,the praise of preface of the books,and promotion by the fellow villagers,they are spread in more versions in the Qing Dynasty,especially in the late Qing Dynasty.And they are positively evaluated by scholars in poetics and actively accepted in creation.Yuefu poems chanting Ming history in early Qing Dynasty not only promote the development of Yuefu,but also make up the deficiency of history,and reflect the value of historiography development in the early Qing Dynasty.