Xia Chengtao's Admiration for Lu You:Centered on His Poem and Ci-poem Composition and Academic Writing
From The Complete Collection of Xia Chengtao's Diaries(《夏承焘日记全编》),we can find out that Xia's poem and Ci-poem composition was to great extent inherited and transformed from the choice of words,the poetic context and the atmosphere in Lu You's(陆游)creation.And Xia's three academic works,including his regretfully unfinished A Chronicle of Lu You's Life(《放翁年谱》),a collaborative work entitled The Chronicled Notes and Commentaries of Lu You's Ci-poems(《放翁词编年笺注》)by Xia and his students,and The Annotations and Notes of the Collection of Lu You's Poems and Ci-poems(《剑南诗稿校注》)which was initiated by him and accomplished by his friend,not only covered the whole dynamic process of his academic career,but also marked his lifelong remembrance of Lu You.Through the relationship between Xia's poem and Ci-poem composition,together with his academic writings and Lu You's character,together with his literary works,we can recognize the rich academic value contained in The Complete Collection of Xia Chengtao's Diaries.
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