Misinterpreted"Qu Xue"in Yuan Haowen's Thirty Poems of Poetry Criticism
There have been two interpretations of"Qu Xue"in the couplet"Qu xue xu huang xiaoshuo qi"in Yuan Haowen's Thirty Poems of Poetry Criticism,one is heresy and the other is the study of chinese traditional opera.I think that the latter is a misin-terpretation.There are two reasons for the misinterpretation:from the perspective of the internal stylistic features,there are aesthetic characteristics such as"emptiness"and"irony and invective";From the perspective of external social conditions,the time of Jin and Yuan Dynasties was the critical period for the germination and development of Yuan Opera.The art of singing was developed,and there was a tendency for literati to adopt songs into poems.In order to solve the misreading,we can examine it from two aspects:the evolution of the meaning of"Quxue"and Yuan Haowen's achievements in Quxue.Firstly,the mutation of"Qu Xue"originated from Qu Hua of Ming Dynasty.In the Jin and Yuan Dynasties,"Qu Xue"did not refer to the use of verse styles,and Yuan's poetry is an isolated proof.Secondly,Yuan Haowen not only changed words into music for the first time,but also was good at making music.He was respected as a pioneer of Yuan Qu.He is unlikely to belittle music for the sake of poetry.