The Qing dynasty represents the most active and intellectually diverse period in the Study of Du Fu’s poems(杜詩學), during which interpretation moved beyond aesthetic admiration to encompass historical consciousness, ethical reflection, and the expressive depth of poetic subjectivity. Within this context, three major figures of the Xingling (性靈) school—Yuan Mei(袁枚), Zhao Yi(趙翼), and Jiang Shiquan(蔣士銓)—shared the belief that poetry arises from authentic inner feeling, yet each developed a distinct perspective on Du Fu’s poetic value.
Yuan Mei rejected the rigid moralization of Du Fu in earlier orthodox scholarship and emphasized creative spontaneity. He located the essence of Du Fu’s poetics in the principle of zhuan yi duo shi (轉益多師), learning from the multiplicity of lived experience rather than imitating fixed models. For Yuan Mei, Du Fu served not as a normative authority but as an exemplar of emotional openness and artistic autonomy.
Zhao Yi, informed by evidential scholarship, interpreted Du Fu’s work as shi shi (詩史), a poetic historiography that transforms personal suffering into collective memory. He valued Du Fu as a poet who engaged directly with historical crisis and articulated it through language of profound ethical resonance.
Jiang Shiquan, in contrast, read Du Fu through a Confucian moral framework. He regarded Du Fu as a loyal and responsible subject who maintained ethical integrity amid dynastic turmoil, and sought to revive Du Fu’s spirit within his own poetic practice.
Together, these interpretations demonstrate that the reception of Du Fu during the Qing dynasty was not monolithic but multi-layered, continually reconstituting Du Fu’s meaning in response to shifting cultural and intellectual conditions. The history of Du Fu’s reception is therefore not a closed accumulation of interpretations but an ongoing process in which each era constructs its own Du Fu.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.