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“The Tongcheng School from the Perspective of Huang Ting-jian's Poetics” is a remarkable classical poetic issue of the Qing dynasty. Since the “Tongcheng involving Poetics” brought up by Qian Ji-bo and Qian Zhong-shu, the subject has somehow established a view to examine whether realism exists in the process of Hu shi’s literary evolution theory. To prove the gains and losses, the dissertation inherits Qians’ thoughts, and focuses on the “3 Masters: 4 Outstanding Inheritors” by organizing the facts and reasons of Tongcheng’s acquisition from Huang Ting-jian through “Description, Explanation and Judgment”. “Literary function,” “Ideal literary style,” “Ideal author” and “Methods of learning poetry” are performed while reasoning. The dissertation reveals the trajectory of transformation based on The Book of songs, putting emphasis on the “Shi-zhi-yong” for moral education, masculine overcomes feminine, the pursuit of best poetic style, the notion of subjectivity while creating, a same strain of not being isolated as simply a poet, “Gift vs. Learning,” a way of discrimination on poetic acquisition and “personality thus replaced gift,” a post transformation. The dissertation finally reveals the fundamental reason of adopting Huang Ting-jian’s poetics as a preference and presents the trajectory of its development. Acquiring Du Fu from Huang Ting-jian, Tongcheng adopted the achievement of “integrating Tang and Song Poems” with “the retrospect from Song to Tang Poems” to cope with the “contemporary poor values”. “Huang Ting-jian's poetic viewpoints” were based on the acquaintance of “Huang Ting-jian's poetic traits,” and the argument was then aroused against “the differences between Su-shi and Huang Ting-jian” and how “Huang Ting-jian learned from Du Fu;” therefor, a “Personal new manner set from tradition” was elevated. Due to the preference of taking “masculine as the best poetic style,” Tongcheng prefer Huang Ting-jian’s poems in the prior mid period. The concept that “Li bai is talented and Du Fu is knowledgeable,” “Li Bai as Su Shi and Du Fu as Huang Ting-jian,” has made Tongcheng choose Huang Ting-jian instead of Su Shi. Since “Huang Ting-jian’s learning of Du Fu was not completely a copy,” Tongcheng considered “uniqueness in advance is a must,” and a “stereotype should be avoided” while acquiring from classic. Nevertheless, Tongcheng’s preference on aesthetic conception had made it impossible to realize the nature of Huang Ting-jian’s poems. The frame that “Li bai’s is talented and Du Fu is knowledgeable” has resulted in the deviation of “not being isolated as simply a poet”. Moreover, “how Huang Ting-jian learned from Du Fu” has ignored the tedious and rigid styles that Huang Ting-jian gained from Du Fu’s poems. Referring to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s “law of mutual change of quality and quantity”, Tongcheng’s poetics was unable to clearly depict the “Specific Quantum” while toning up by mechanics. In spite of the ideal of “Integrating Tang and Song Poems” may not achieved, the processes striving to respond to the malady and struggling against the inherited classics have enlightened the examination and reflection for the contemporary people towards tradition.
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