英文摘要 |
The Complete Song Poems and the Supplemented Complete Song Poems record 138 Song poets that have presented their poems to physiognomists, 482 presented poems, and 427 titles of these poems. To observe the development of this culture, this study classifies related information into four groups according to their times: the Northern Song, the transition from the Northern Song to the Southern Song, the Southern Song, and the period after the fall of the Southern Song. The following four issues are investigated: (1) the reason why the poets write poems to physiognomists, (2) the backgrounds of the physiognomists, (3) the poets' attitudes toward divination, and (4) the poets' values. It is ascertained that most physiognomists have worked hard on Confucian studies for the imperial examination but failed it, and that they praise divination, half doubt it, or conduct it with li (principle). As for the poets, what they value is the freedom of the mind. |