Ming poetry
Ming poetry refers to the poetry of or typical of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).[1] With over one million specimens of Ming poetry surviving today, the poetry of the Ming dynasty represents one of the major periods of Classical Chinese poetry, as well as an area of active modern academic research. Ming poetry (and Chinese art and literature in general) is marked by 2 transitional phases, the transition between the Yuan dynasty which was the predecessor to the Ming, and the Qing-Ming transition which eventually resulted in the succeeding Qing dynasty. Although in politico-dynastic terms, the dynastic leadership of China is historically relatively clear-cut, the poetic periods involved encompass the lifespans and works of poets whose lives and poetic output transcend both the end of one dynasty and the initiatory period of the next.
Background
Following the collapse of the
Poets and poetry
Leading Ming poets include
From the late Ming onwards, there was a new interest in women's writings and an increasing number of female poets appeared. Male literati edited anthologies of women's poems, however such actions were shocking to many orthodox thinkers.
Influence
The area of Ming poetry is one in which there are certain acknowledged major poets representative of the era; however, it is also an era associated with a dynamic of ongoing scholarly research, as well as less formal investigation.
See also
General
- Chinese Sanqu poetry
- Classical Chinese poetry (for general information)
- Ōta Nanpo (for an example of influence on a Japanese poet)
- The Latter Five Poets of the Southern Garden (regarding important Cantonese poets of the sixteenth century)
- The Latter Seven Masters(a Ming dynasty poetry circle)
- Category:Ming dynasty plays (for information on the topic of Ming-dynasty plays)
- Category:Ming dynasty poets (for Wikipedia articles categorized as being on the topic of Ming-dynasty poets)
Background
- Fall of the Ming dynasty(an article on the fall of Ming and rise of the Qing Dynasty)
- Manchu conquest of China(another article on the fall of Ming and rise of Qing)
- Ming dynasty (general information on dynasty)
- Qing dynasty (next major dynasty)
- Yuan dynasty (previous dynasty)
Notes
- ^ Davis, lxxi
- ^ Berg (2013), p. 245.
- ^ Berg (2013), p. 246.
- ^ "五月榴花照眼明——柳如是《天香浓浸图》赏析".
- ^ Berg (2013), p. 253.
- ^ Berg (2013), p. 287.
References
- Berg, Daria (2013). Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580–1700. Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-11422-3.
- Davis, Albert Richard, Editor and Introduction, The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse. (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1970).
- Kojiro Yoshikawa and John Timothy Wixted. Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150–1650 : The Chin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989). ISBN 978-0691067681.
- Hongdao Yuan, Zongdao Yuan, Zhongdao Yuan and Jonathan Chaves. Pilgrim of the Clouds: Poems and Essays. (New York: Weatherhill, 1978). ISBN 0834801345.
- Jonathan Chaves. "The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry". (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986).