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Song dynasty and its significance in Chinese History
In this article, I would like to introduce the "Culture History" of Song dynasty. I will mainly talk about "Literature", which will be divided into 4 parts that are: 1)Poetry; 2)Prose; 3) Ci(詞); and 4)History. After introducing the Literature, I would like to explain Song dynasty 's significance in Chinese History.
In Zhen Zong period, Xi Kun Ti became popular among the high officials. The representative of the Xi Kun Ti were Yang Yi, Liu-yun, Qian Wei-yan and the like.
Besides Xi Kun Ti, there were some poets with special style in early-Song period. They were called "Late Tang group". For instance, Wei-ye, Lin Bu, Kou Zhun and the like were all the representatives of "Late Tang group".
Then in the Ren Zong period, Ouyang Xiu had proceeded "Classical Prose Movement" and created created a flow of poetry new to each other model, with the help of Mei Yao-chen and Su Shun-qin, also reference by Han Yu.
In the period of Shen Zong, Wang An-shi was active on creating political poem. He did write poem about politics, in the expression of a neat style while incorporating the ancient poems poetry-Story. Another wonderful poet must be introduced is Su Shi. He created a lot of marvelous poems and taught many students, For instance, all of Huang Ting-jian, Zhang Lei, Chao Bu-zhi and Qin-guan were students of Su Shi. Especially Huang had the greatest impact on posterity-statement gave birth to a stream called "Jiang Xi Shi Pai" after.
Then, to represent the sadness of the lose of North China and the lather of being oppressed in Gangnam were Chen Yu-yi, Ceng Ji and Lu Ben-zhong. Many poems of them had mentioned the sadness of losing kingdom and reflected the age. Among three, Chen Yu-yi, who respected Du-fu very much, had the most similar style with Du-fu that always criticized the problems of the country in his poems.
Entering into the reign of Xiao Zong, poetry celebrated the heyday again as Southern
In this article, I would like to introduce the "Culture History" of Song dynasty. I will mainly talk about "Literature", which will be divided into 4 parts that are: 1)Poetry; 2)Prose; 3) Ci(詞); and 4)History. After introducing the Literature, I would like to explain Song dynasty 's significance in Chinese History.
In Zhen Zong period, Xi Kun Ti became popular among the high officials. The representative of the Xi Kun Ti were Yang Yi, Liu-yun, Qian Wei-yan and the like.
Besides Xi Kun Ti, there were some poets with special style in early-Song period. They were called "Late Tang group". For instance, Wei-ye, Lin Bu, Kou Zhun and the like were all the representatives of "Late Tang group".
Then in the Ren Zong period, Ouyang Xiu had proceeded "Classical Prose Movement" and created created a flow of poetry new to each other model, with the help of Mei Yao-chen and Su Shun-qin, also reference by Han Yu.
In the period of Shen Zong, Wang An-shi was active on creating political poem. He did write poem about politics, in the expression of a neat style while incorporating the ancient poems poetry-Story. Another wonderful poet must be introduced is Su Shi. He created a lot of marvelous poems and taught many students, For instance, all of Huang Ting-jian, Zhang Lei, Chao Bu-zhi and Qin-guan were students of Su Shi. Especially Huang had the greatest impact on posterity-statement gave birth to a stream called "Jiang Xi Shi Pai" after.
Then, to represent the sadness of the lose of North China and the lather of being oppressed in Gangnam were Chen Yu-yi, Ceng Ji and Lu Ben-zhong. Many poems of them had mentioned the sadness of losing kingdom and reflected the age. Among three, Chen Yu-yi, who respected Du-fu very much, had the most similar style with Du-fu that always criticized the problems of the country in his poems.
Entering into the reign of Xiao Zong, poetry celebrated the heyday again as Southern
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