Title: The Construction of Xu Yun’s Poetic View under the Influence of the Seven Sons of the Ming Dynasty

Abstract: Xu Yun lived during the middle and late Ming dynasty, and the movement for restoring ancient ways initiated by the seven sons of the Ming dynasty had a great influence on him. When he accepted the thought of restoring ancient ways in the literature of the seven sons of Ming dynasty, he formed his own idea of poetics based on the reality of the Korean literary world. He affirmed the movement of restoring ancient ways in the literature of Ming qizi, and agreed with the literary propositions of the Qin and Han dynasties and the poetics of the Tang dynasty. He advocated temperance in poetics. In view of the dynastic nature of qizi poetics in the Tang dynasty, this paper puts forward the concept of “thick ancient and precious modern”, which expands his vision of poetics. Summing up the disadvantages of plagiarism in the Ming dynasty, this paper attaches importance to the flexible integration and application of various techniques, and pursues the poetic means of “supreme law”.

Keywords: ancient, temperament poetics, all the spoil, thick ancient heavy today, the best method

Author: Meihua Cai, Professor, Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Tanghua Yuan, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, Beihua University, Jilin, Jilin, China.