The Inheritance and Development of the Idea of Literature and Tao and the Narration of the Preamble of Appointment during the Song Dynasty
The preamble of appointment is a part of the preamble of gift.The early preamble of appointment was usually written as the preamble of collection of poems in banquet sending off colleagues,which was for extending the virtue and reputation of the person who took up the post.After the Middle Tang Dynasty,the advocates of the ancient prose movement adhered to the creation purpose of"prose is to clarify the doctrine."The classical writers of the Northern Song Dynasty created a large number of creative preamble of appointment,which not only showed the literacy's attention to the current politics,but also made the politicalization and rationalization in preamble of appointment increasingly mature.The Confucian scholars of the Southern Song Dynasty closely combined the moral cultivation of scholars with the way of governance.While emphasizing the moral cultivation,they also integrated the political program into the creation of preamble of appointment,which was the writing of the times in which the spirit of scholars turned inward.In the creative art,the dual stylistic features of narration and discussion made the preamble of appointment in the Song Dynasty able to absorb and use a variety of stylistic expression techniques,to show the political ideal and spiritual style of the Song Dynasty scholars,so that the ideological content of preamble of appointment was deepened and the art form was more diversified.
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