The Background of Zhao Ming Anthology

The political status of metaphysics is still very high. During the Liu and Song Dynasties, Metaphysics Museum, Confucianism Museum, Literature Museum and History Museum were established. Later, metaphysics was formally put forward as a discipline. It can be seen that metaphysics played an undiminished role in the Southern Dynasties, juxtaposed with Confucian historiography and literature. From the time of its establishment, among the "four schools" in the early Song Dynasty, the Metaphysics Museum was the earliest one; Judging from the personnel in charge of the four museums, in the 13th year of Yuanjia, after the establishment of the Guo Zi School, the first drinker was He Shangzhi, a master of metaphysics, and Yan Yanzhi, a famous metaphysical master and writer in the Southern Dynasties, succeeded him. Yan Yanzhi also said: "It is a matter of mourning Confucianism to betray Zheng Guiwang." In addition, many scholars in the Southern Dynasties were both metaphysicists and writers, which provided subjective conditions for the literariness of metaphysics. The Selected Works contains 25 writers in the Southern Dynasties, including some major literary groups in the Southern Dynasties, three masters in Yuanjia, six masters in Jingling, and several other representative writers in the literary world at that time. Their literary achievements are also quite high, such as Xie Zhuang, Liu, Jiang Yan, Wang Sengda, Wang Jianqi and Liu Wei. From the Four Books of the Southern Dynasties and the History of the South, it is not difficult to find that these writers have profound literary attainments and are closely associated with the Eight Friends of Jingling. Therefore, their works can reflect the literary atmosphere of the Southern Dynasties, which is also the reason why Selected Works is included.

Judging from the writers selected in Selected Works, it tries to avoid metaphysical poets, from which we can see that the Southern Dynasties are trying to get rid of the disadvantages of metaphysical poems, which also provides an opportunity for metaphysics to turn to literature. Luo Hongkai said in Selected Works: "The style of writing is unprepared and not strict with the Six Dynasties. Xiao's "Selected Works" is full of prostheses, wonderful, simple and elegant, which can be described as eight-thirtieth. " It can be seen that in the Southern Dynasties, scholars gradually got a better understanding of the concept of "style" and realized the relationship between style and literature. Therefore, when editing works, editors must pay attention to the screening of works with different styles.

There are thirty-nine and thirty-eight styles in Selected Works, among which poetry and fu are divided into several sub-categories. The works collected in the Southern Dynasties 175, covering the style of writing, morality, public banquets, ancestor worship, history chanting, sightseeing, nostalgia, poetry writing, tourism, suburban temples, Yuefu, miscellaneous songs, miscellaneous poems, orders, writings, tables, letters, opening and playing. There are some miscellaneous poems among them. Only from the number of styles, we can easily see the writers' understanding of styles in the Southern Dynasties, and at the same time, we can see that the scope of metaphysics literariness has expanded to a variety of styles in the Southern Dynasties. Although, not all the styles included in Wenxuan have the literary tendency of metaphysics, because Wenxuan has the largest number of poems and involves the most styles. Generally speaking, this tendency is quite obvious. As an important stage in the development of China's poems and parallel prose, the Southern Dynasties can also be said to be an important turning point. Poetry in this period has made progress in melody, allusions and content expression, and created a large number of new poetic styles, such as landscape poems, palace poems, quasi-poems and epics. The prosperity of parallel prose in the Southern Dynasties is second only to that of poetry, but its application scope exceeds that of poetry. The maturity of parallel prose also conforms to the general trend of literary development, and Selected Works also conforms to this trend, including a large number of poems and parallel prose. Therefore, the contents of the works included in Selected Works also have the literary tendency of metaphysics. An important way to express the literariness of metaphysics in the Southern Dynasties is to use allusions. When choosing classics, writers often pay attention to the use of Zhuang and old classics, and examples can be found in both poetry and parallel prose. For example, Xie Lingyun's Poems of Confucius Sent to Songgong Racecourse on the 9th, Running the World and Blowing Thousands of Fang Yue, Zhuangzi said: "If you smell it, you will rule the world." Xie Hun's "The West Chamber": "Thinking without doing anything, South Rong admonishes it." Wait a minute.

It can be seen that the writers in the Southern Dynasties borrowed from the ancient books of Zhuang and Lao, and got rid of the defect that metaphysical poems only put Hyunri, making the content of metaphysical words more literary.

To sum up, through the analysis of the above four aspects of Selected Works, the writers in the Southern Dynasties gradually realized the transition from metaphysics to literariness to adapt to the development of literature, and their works also showed the literary tendency of metaphysics. At the same time, this tendency, as a stage of the development and evolution of metaphysics, paved the way for the emergence of heavy metaphysics in Tang Dynasty.