Research On “Rivers And Lakes” Poets Named Xu Fei

This article adds to the previous studies on the life,travels,and works’ artistic characteristics of Xu Fei,and focuses on the editions of his literary collections,literary styles,and the connection between his work and “Rivers and Lakes” culture.The first chapter is an examination of Xu’s life and death,his change of identity from wanderer to hermit,and his travels.This chapter examines Xu’s birth and death year with a new view,explores his living condition of in different capacities,and discusses his main friends and their association.The second chapter examines the editions of Xu’s collections.Xu’s poems,writings,and lyrics are all collected in collections.As the situation is complex,it is necessary to sort out the collection editions of various genres.The first section deals with the poetry and the naming of poetry collections.In the second section,the writings are researched.What’s more,the single volume named Woodcutter’s Talk,which separated from Xianchou Collection,and some short essays in the Rongchun Xiaozhui(so-called the Miscellaneous Writings of the Plum House),are usually regarded as collections of Xu’s writings.The last section focuses on lyric collections,while the Jigu-library edition possesses the the highest quality.The third chapter is a study of the art of Xu’s works.The main focus is on poetry,supplemented by lyrics.In terms of subject matter,Xu excels in expressing his own leisurely mood in his descriptions of the Nature,and in depicting boudoir by creating a speech on behalf of women.These two types of poems,in their subject matter and manner of composition,impact the poetic ideology of the Neo-Confucian who valued moral cultivation and used poetry to chant the righteousness.In terms of allusions,Xu follows in the footsteps of the Four Lings of Yongjia,and does not stick to allusions in his poetry.However,in his allusive poems,the allusions usually show a strong tendency.In terms of language,Xu’s poetry is clear and natural.Although being fond of the Four Lings of Yongjia,Xu does not copy their "painstaking composition" mode.His poetry is also sometimes lucid,containing dialect and slang,which reflects the changing tendency about the vernacularly poetic language style in Mid to Late Southern Song Dynasty.The fourth chapter is devoted to Xu’s works and “Rivers and Lakes” culture.The first section is about the writing of plum blossoms under the “plum-loving trend”,starting with the love of plums in Song dynasty society and analyzing Xu’s writing of plums from the outside to the inside.The second section is about the road of Youye in the post-apocalyptic environment.Youye,which means paying a formal visit of officials and make friends with literati,shows a unique culture at that time.This section aims to analyze Xu’s poetry from these two perspectives.The third section is about the choice of seclusion after the recognition of the “No-Way” society.“No-Way” society is the leading reason that forcing Xu to seclude,so this section begins with a look at the “No-Way” society that Xu wrote about,followed by an analysis of the impact of the“no-Way” society on him,which is reflected in his literary work and his change of identity as a hermit.In the appendix,we present the Annotations of Xu’s Collections,in which we search through the various editions of Xu’s collection,select the base edition and proofread it,as well as make a record.The scope of the commentary includes the people,the geography,the rules and regulations,the various types of objects,and the allusions,with appropriate explanations of the sentences when necessary.