| dc.description.abstract | Cai Xiang’’s Style name was Junmo, and his posthumous name was Zhonghuei. Cai Xiang (1012–1067) was a respectable patriot, an innovative and people-loved official, and a poet in the Song Dynasty. Cai Xiang had the reputation with his contemporaries, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, as the greatest four calligrapher and he was named the best at that time. He had collected works of poems which is about four hundred thousand words left in this day, where we can find his outstanding in literature, knowledge in bridge architecture and botanical, and political talent as a Duanmingdian Xueshi (secretariat Drafter of Duanming Court ).In this paper, we will focus on the study of poetry, trying to explore Cai Xiang’s literature values and meaning in terms of the view of cultural geography. There are five chapters.
In the first chapter, we will introduce our purpose of study, and then we would jump from the stereotype of the greatest four in the Song Dynasty to further discuss Cai Xiang’s intelligence, FuJian background, and historical status. We will also discuss the structure, source, and method in this paper.
In the second chapter, we will divided it into three parts to express Cai Xiang’s background and literature activities in terms of politics, society, economy, and religion in the beginning of Song Dynasty.
In the third chapter, we will give an analysis of how Cai Xiang’s personality and his poetry works get involved with Confucian ideology, Taoism, and Buddhism. Junmo’s poetry and his zeitgeist not only a reflection of a charm of northern Song Dynasty, but a tradition of long Chinese history.
In the fourth chapter, We will try to explain the culture of FuJian from Cai Xiang’s poetry based on point of view of regional literature and culture. There are four main points which are the scenery of FuJian, the life of tea tasting, the combination of literature and calligraphy, and culture inheritance. In this way, we would discover the material civilization and spiritual progress of Song Dynasty had reached a certain height at that time.
In the final chapter, we will conclude the study. Besides the singing and longing for the good old times, Cai Xiang’s peotry reflects the interaction between people and the community, expressing the subjects such as academic, religion, art, and economy. Cai Xiang had also treated living with lute-playing, chess, calligraphy, painting, poem, wine, tea, and flower as a graceful symbol of ideal life style. From this point, we can see how rich Cai Xiang’s poetry could be in all times.
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