Discourse Mode of Public Will:Responsory Poems of Tuilao Hall and Reshaping of the Reclusion Tradition in the Song Dynasty's Southward Migration Period
Dwelling in Taizhou,Lyn Yihao built his retreat named Tuilao Hall(Reclusion Hall),which sparked many responsory poems,including those by the literati and Lyn himself.On the one hand,the literati lauded Lyn's political achievements and noble character of reclusion.On the other,they questioned the tim-ing of his retreat by citing historical figures like Xie An and Pei Du.Their counter-discourse highlighted the core value of steady literati during a period of political and cultural reconstruction,expressing a group anxiety for the reclusion of the able and virtuous in the context of the Song Dynasty's southward migration.Mean-while,Lyn positioned himself as a"pedantic scholar"in retreat,showing the influence of the Tang poetic master Du Fu.Through dreamland writing and illustration of reclusion,he analyzed his aspirations of serving the country and retaking the lost land in northern China behind his serene retreat.In conclusion,the loyalty to the monarch and the mission to reinvigorate the nation constituted the internal drive and logical starting point of literati's responsory poems.The literati's polyphonic attitude unveiled in the poems demonstrated the epochal dilemma of reclusion tradition,while the collective feature of discourse mode revealed the influence of the literati's home-country concern about the traditional narrative logic of reclusion,which prompted the literati's reflection and reshaping of the tradition to reconcile the contradictions between reclusion thought and realistic demands.
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