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Study on the characteristics of Poets of Su Men Literary Group’s prefaces

김은경 1

1안동대학교

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ABSTRACT

Su Shi began to write Ci’s prefaces in earnest. From the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, most of the poets have written the prefaces in their Ci. Ci’s prefaces is not the only factor of writing poetry, and also is a part of the Ci. Ci’s prefaces that started writing from Su Shi has become popular in the Southern Song Dynasty, there are poets of Su Men Literary Group at the center of its change. Compared with their contemporaries, Poets of Su Men Literary Group have written Ci’s prefaces more then them. They used it to create Ci’s prefaces which is all the things that happen in their daily life. Varying content of prefaces shows us the poet's daily life and has the value of historical materials too. Besides, they wrote the method of written Ci in the preface directly, that was caused a variety of Ci genre creation, expanded the creative mothed. Poets of Su Men Literary Group hold to “Follow the style(尊體)” and accept “Break the style(破體)”, they have Some complex Ci theories and independence of creative practice, have pursued the personalization of the preface. A long Ci-Preface was not written for Ci text, was not secondary things any more. It had its own firm position and meaning. One of Su Men Literary Group wrote the Ci-Preface like essays, other just wrote Ci-title based on facts quite simply, and the others who take the original character of Ci into consideration, only noted a few Ci’s prefaces. The characteristics of Ci’s Prefaces that Poets of Su Men Literary Group wrote were reflected in paying more attention to meaning than form and the regarding poetry as Ci of Su Shi’s theory. These characteristics of the prefaces bring about the innovation of Ci. Each of them shared their practice theory freely, extend creation of Ci’s prefaces. The creation of various contents and methods of their Ci’s prefaces played a role in the future that could lead to the Southern Song Dynasty. In addition, Poets of Su Men Literary Group and their Ci’s prefaces occupies an important position in discussing the development of Song Ci and Ci’s prefaces.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.