North and South, Division and Merging: Lu You, Yuan Haowen and the Theory of History of the Southern Song, Jin Poetry

Relations between the Southern Song and Jin were tense and hostile, hense there were very limited communications in literature and culture. At that time, the two schools of poetry developed independently. However, from the Yuan Dynasty onwards, scholars often made comparisons with the two schools, and gradually treated them as one poetic tradition. The thesis explores this emerging progess and the poetic concepts behind.;Lu You (1125-1210) and Yuen Haowen (1190-1257) are the most famous poets of classical Chinese literature after Su Xi and Huang Tingjian. They represent the Southern Song and Jin poetry respectively. Their poetic theories and works are always discussed, but not compared. It is because scholars of the recent generations recognized Southern Song and Jing as two independent schools of poetry. Therefore, in the Chinese literature history, no matter it is in general or by stages, the coexistence of the two poets are often neglected.;The author proposes since the Yuan Dynasty, the relationship between the schools of the Southern Song and Jin poetry started to gain notice. The works were compared as a way of review and the standards were mainly about legitimacy and the poetic origins. The Yuan scholars concerned heritage aspect and approved that the Jin poetry was better than the Southern Song. The Ming scholars concerned the way to assimilate the Tang poetry. They regarded Southern Song and Jing poetry as the mid and late Tang poetry, whereas Qing Scholars recognized them as a development of the school of Tu Fu poetry. The values of the Southern Song and Jin poetry raised and emerged into one school.;In he Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties, the comparison of the Southern Song and Jin poetry is one of the most important issues in Chinese literary history. Evaluations were done from different aspects and with different purposes and they all reflect different points of views of the scholars. Through the comparison, we can have a better understanding of the reasons and progress of how Lu You and Yuan Haowen became the paragons of the later generations and how they made themselves stand out from Tang and Song poetry and became the important studying models of classical poetry. By this research, the author wishes to give a clear image of the influence of the Chinese classical poetry development given by Lu You, Yuan Haowen and also the Song and Jin poetry.