英文摘要 |
Ji Yongren嵇永仁was a victim of the“Revolt of the Three Feudatories.”Previous scholarly focus has primarily been on Ji’s plays, leaving the literary and cultural significance of his prison poetry, specifically the poetry collections“The Chant of Jiji”(Jiji yin吉吉吟) and“The Chant of a Hundred Sorrows”(Baiku yin百苦吟), largely unexplored. Based on an examination of Ji’s writing concepts and environment, this article attempts to explore his prison poetry within the context of the tradition of“Poetic History”(Shishi詩史). It argues that the poet’s experience in prison not only becomes a source of creative material and subject matter, but also that it leads to the development of a poetic aesthetic characterized by filth, impurity, and vulgarity. Despite this aesthetic style being distinct from that found in traditional poetics, due to the public significance of Ji and others’shared prison experience, it paradoxically came to be embraced within the Confucian value system, becoming a unique practice within the realm of“Poetic History”theory. Drawing on accounts of Ji’s prison life beyond his poetry, this article |