| Duanmu Cai was a famous Ci writer and Ci scholar in the late Qing Dynasty.Duanmu Cai also compiled an appreciated Song Ci anthology,annotating Selected Ci compiled by Zhang Huiyan and Selected Ci Continued compiled by Dong Yi.According to the different subjects of the Ci works,the subject matter of Bixie Ci can be divided into such categories as painting scenes and praising things,paying friends,recalling the past and praising the history,and feeling about immediate events.Duanmu Cai embodied his inner feelings and interests in his Ci works.From Bixie Ci,it can be seen that Duanmu Cai felt his affection for his teachers and friends,his deep worries about his country,his sadness of unfulfilled ambition and his noble and clean heart.Therefore,the emotional connotation of Bixie Ci is rich and deep.Duanmu Cai not only attached importance to the thoughts and feelings contained in his Ci works,but also attached importance to the artistic expression of his Ci works.In Bixie Ci,Duanmu Cai combines his emotion with scenery and objects and the artistic effect is terrific.Duanmu Cai also combines nihility and reality,achieving high aesthetic level.Duanmu Cai not only made some achievements in Ci writing,but also had his own originality in Ci theory.Duanmu Cai fused theory essence of Changzhou Ci School,Zhexi Ci Schooland and Wuzhong Ci School.Duanmu Cai promoted the growing of Bailment theory,agreed to empty and elegant poetry aesthetic tendency and attached importance to the meaning of rigorous intonation.Duanmu Cai was a leader in the Ci world of the late Qing Dynasty.He had a close association with Wang Pengyun and Kuang Zhouyi in Ci study,and he taught them earnestly and guided them with earnest in Ci creation and Ci theory.Therefore,Duanmu Cai has promoted the development of Ci style in the late Qing Dynasty,and is of great value in the Ci world in the late Qing Dynasty. |