Research On Gu Yanwu’s Tinglin Poetry Collection

Gu Yanwu was a famous thinker in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties,who was known as “the founder of the Mountains” in Qing Learning.He is knowledgeable enough to have studies in many aspects,including the manners of county,the astrology,the river canal,the military books,agriculture,hundreds schools of thought,and the phonology of exegesis.In his later years,he paid more attention to textual research of the facts,which opened the atmosphere of practical learning in the Qing Dynasty.His learned to be knowledgeable in literature and was ashamed to do so.His main works include Zhi Lu,The Book of The Benefit of the Kingdom,Zhaoyu Zhi,Five Books of Phonology,Yun Bu Zheng,Ancient Pronunciation table,The Rhyme of the Tang dynasty,Yin Lun,Records of Goldstone writings,Anthology of Tinglin Poems etc.and his poetry is full of sorrow.For a long time,people’s lack of understanding of his poetry,mainly because of his reputation as a thinker and scholar,masked his poetic achievements.In fact,Gu Yanwu’s poems are not only of considerable quantity,but also of high artistic level.It reflects the turbulent social reality in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and shows the spiritual outlook of the patriotic literati.His profound cultural deposits and deeply rooted patriotic thoughts are rare among the contemporary poets.Based on this,the author will start with Gu Yanwu’s life experience and the preservation of literature and materials,and make a classification analysis of his more than 400 existing poems,which are mainly divided into six chapters.Firstly,the background,research status at home and abroad,significance of the topic and innovative research methods are briefly introduced.The first chapter introduces Gu Yanwu’s life and literature retention.Among them,his life experience is divided into five sections to elaborate,Gu’s background,family influence,the road to study,devoting himself to the restoration of the Ming Dynasty,traveling north to write books.The journey of his life unfolds like a picture scroll along the time line,and the changes in the thoughts and feelings of the poet are more vivid.The other part is to conduct textual research on the present situation of his literature preservation.Influenced by the“Literary inquisition” of the Qing Court,the Collection of Poems in The Pavilion Forest was listed as a bibliography that should be destroyed,mainly involving the textual research and the textual research of auxiliary materials.The second chapter research on the poems of The Collection of Poems in The Pavilion Forest,the topic of the poetry is mainly divided into five kinds of poems,including wills,current affairs,mourning for friends,Xiaoling Tomb worship,and some poems presented by each other.From these poems,try to understand the poet’s thoughts as well as feelings and the profound cultural connotation.Through the poems,the poet expressed his aspiration in the heart,recorded his life experience,remembered friends,mourned the deceased.Gu also expressed the praise for patriots in singing with his friends,and showed the patriotic spirit of integrity and noble nation.The third chapter is a study of the theme of The Collection of Poems in The Pavilion Forest,which is divided into three sections.It shows the three main meanings of“truth,change and reality” in the poems.It combines the purpose of the poems of the poets to conduct research and analysis,emphasizing that the poems should be spontaneous and authentic,while opposing imitation and relying on the ancients.The fourth chapter mainly analyzes the art of the poem forms in The Collection of Poems in The Pavilion Forest.The poet has rich cultural connotation and profound literary background,male style with concise,deep stiffness,whose main expression is divided into two parts,which are citing allusion and using metaphors to express emotions.Gu combined personal wisdom,mind,vision and ambition together to write the poems in one stretch.The fifth chapter is the research on the value of the literary thought of Gu Yanwu,analyzing the impact on the style and the influence on the later literature through combining the achievements of Gu Yanwu on poetry,which not only changed the wind of the eight-legged essay of the Ming dynasty,but the later literary creation is also a positive far-reaching influence.Today,the sound was deafening,so Gu is still a national pioneer.The writer emphasizes its research value.The last part is the summary of the article,triggering new insights and thinking.