A Study Of Ouyang Zhan And His Poetry

Ouyang Zhan,alias Xingzhou,lived and created mainly in the years of Dali and Zhenyuan.In the 8th year of Zhenyuan(i.e.,792),he became a Jinshi together with Han Yu and Li Guan,and was called “ Dragon and Tiger Table”,and then served as four assistant professors of the Imperial College.Ouyang Zhan was the only poet with poetry anthology handed down in Fujian in the middle Tang Dynasty.This paper is divided into four parts to study Ouyang Zhan ’ s poems systematically from inside to outside.The first part is based on Ouyang Zhan ’ s poetry,combing the history,ambitions and notes,investigating the monument sites,etc.,to make a detailed textual research on Ouyang Zhan ’ s native place,and basically identify Ouyang Zhan is Nanan people in Quanzhou.The second part focuses on Ouyang Zhan ’ s poetry content,focusing on the perception and writing of the geographical landscape of Fujian.There are two aspects in his poetry according to the relationship with his hometown : when he travels abroad,the poet has a very different geographical perception,and delicate and sharp visual and auditory descriptions appear many times in his poetry.After returning to his hometown,his poems often focus on the natural landscape of Fujian.The third part explores Ouyang Zhan ’ s unique psychological consciousness.In the poems or notes,Ouyang Zhan will specifically indicate the Min people in Fujian,which reflects his sensitive cognition of regional identity.At the same time,Ouyang Zhan ’ s strong nostalgia is personal and irrational,and his nostalgia poetry is straight because of his strong feelings,which is free from the mainstream of poetry in the middle Tang Dynasty.Reciprocating poetic language implies Ouyang Zhan ’ s inner contradictions and pains.He has both the ambition of fame and the thought of reclusion.The particularity and contradiction of Ouyang Zhan ’ s thought are closely related to his social and historical background,regional cultural heritage and individual experience.The fourth part focuses on the artistic expression of Ouyang Zhan ’ s poetry,mainly from four aspects of allusion,overlapping,contrast and image analysis.Ouyang Zhan has a wide range of allusions and can use them to express his emotions.His allusions of poetry talents and famous ministers coexist with those of hermit celebrities.The overlapping characters in Ouyang Zhan ’ s poems not only give us a kind of beautiful enjoyment in rhyme,but also highly generalize the objects to be described in aesthetic sense.