Mao Kun's Reevaluation of Liu Zongyuan's Letters with His Old Friends and Its Influence
Before Mao Kun,Liu Zongyuan's letters with his old friends were often regarded as begging for help and a somber style;critics'comments on them are mainly negative.Mao Kun,with a bumpy career similar to that of Liu Zongyuan,also begged for help from his old friends.Therefore,he sympathized with Liu Zongyuan and fully affirmed the literary value of Liu's letters with his old friends for the first time.Mao Kun believed that the"somber"style of Liu Zongyuan's letters with his old friends came from Sima Qian and Yang Yun,which was the product of"writing from anger".He also believed that Liu Zongyuan's letters with his old friends represent his highest achievement in the classical literary movement in the Tang Dynasty,which were quite different from the previous parallel prose of the Six Dynasties.All this confirms the important value of Liu Zongyuan's letters with his old friends in the history of Chinese prose from the perspective of the inheritance of China's excellent literary tradition and the diversion of parallel prose and the prose.It can be seen as the watershed of Liu Zongyuan's prose criticism.Mao Kun's reevaluation was basically accepted by the scholars in the Qing Dynasty,who,on this basis,more profoundly and more subtly expounded the aesthetic value of Liu Zongyuan's letters with his old friends.Mao Kun's reevaluation of Liu Zongyuan's letters with his old friends plays a vital role in the canonization of Liu Zongyuan's prose,and has a leading significance for promoting the literary status of Liu Zongyuan's prose in the Qing Dynasty.
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