Abstract

During the period of the State of Wei, people suffered a great political confusion as the state started with the usurpation of throne and ended with the usurpation of throne for a short period of 45 years. While suffering the great confusion, the literary men at the time began to understand their social responsibilities and started their literary activities under the name of their own for their works. They described the horrible society and the life of poor people of that time in their works and left the literary style called Jian’an poetry. Cao Pi authored the first book with that style, which is titled Jeonronnonmun. In addition, the ideology of “hyeonhak’ appeared as people tried to make the innovation of nw ideology and the poets called Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove appeared and left their poets based on the Taoism and hyeondam.<BR> To find out Ming and Qing dynasty scholars’ evaluation of the poetry of that time, I selected four collections of poetry written during 16th century to 18th century such as “Gosigi”, “Chaesukdang Gosiseon”, “Gosiwon” and “Gosisangseok” and then sorted them out in the joint list of the poetry during the period of Wei before trying the analysis of them.<BR> First, the poetry making up 67 poets (61%) were writen by three Cao family members. Among them, the number of works writen by Cao Zhi was 28, which took up 42% of them. The analysis of these works showed that they contained not only the strong mind showing the style of Jian’an poetry but also the historical events and backgrounds, thus giving the descendant the opportunity of peeping into the situation of the period of Wei.<BR> Second, the number of works written by Seven Persons of Jian’an Poetry was 8, which took up 13%. Among Seven Persons of Jian’an Poetry, the works written by 5 persons were lised on the joint list. These works also reflected the historical events of the period of Wei and the confusing societal situation of the time, and showed the strength of Jian’an poetry. <BR> Third, I researched on poetry written by Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. Even though the group was made up with 6 famous poets of that time, there was only one person named “Ruan Ji” in the joint list for 4 kinds of ancient poetry collections selected in this paper and in addition, only one work titled “Yeonghoi” was selected for the list. That may be attributed to the reign of terror made by Sima clan when they could not express their ideas in their works in order to save their lives under the reign of terror. The poetry works having the topics of “Taoism and hyeondam” could not contain the period of Wei any more.<BR> Last, I researched the works made by poets other than three Cao family members, Seven Persons of Jian’an, and Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. The works such as “Manga” which contains the perspective of death, “Jonggunhaeng” which express the agony suffered by the people in the frontier while following the military were also selected as the poetry showing the situation of that time.<BR> It can be said that what the Ming and Qing dynasty scholars wanted to see through four kinds of ancient poetry collections written during 16th century to 18th century was the life of poets and people who lived the short but dynamic period of Wei and that this is the reason why the editors selected the poetry of the time of Wei.

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