Qing Dynasty poetry notes serves as a valuable historical source for stylistic materials and criticism.One of its most prominent and unique features is the"style-breaking"concept.Among the 174 books on poetry notes in the 16 collections organized by scholars,as many as 63 involve taking prose as poetry,poetry as ci,and ancient poetry as rhythmic poetry,as well as the oppo-site categories of taking poetry as prose,ci as poetry,and rhythmic poetry as ancient poetry.These poetry notes span the entire his-tory of poetry and poetics in the Qing Dynasty.Esteemed scholars in Qing Dynasty poetics,including Wang Fuzhi,Ye Xie,Wang Shizhen,Shen Deqian,Zhao Yi,Weng Fanggang,and Pan Deyu,offer positive,negative,or dialectical criticisms of these stylistic categories.Their complex ideas on style sparked extensive academic debates and formed a systematic"style-breaking"concept sys-tem,representing a synthesis and summary of ancient Chinese theories on"style-breaking."This analysis and comparison of the"style-breaking"concept in the poetry notes of the Song,Yuan,and Ming Dynasties holds significant academic and theoretical val-ue for the history of stylistic criticism.
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