Dugu and Research

About This Novel

This book discusses Dugu Ji's ideological and literary status from five aspects, and points out that Dugu Ji is the epitome of a practical scholar in his era who promoted Confucianism and focused the Confucian ideas on paper into specific affairs. Dugu Ji's reasoned and energetic memorial writing style, his exquisite narrative writing skills in his prefaces and narratives, his realistic features of deposed epigraphs, his theme of resentment and the lyrical feature of "taking place due to circumstances" all make him a "major" writer of Tang literary works. The characteristics of some of his poems "using text as poetry" show that the poet's interest in recording life far exceeds the pursuit of poetic taste, while the characteristics of some of his poems as "high ancient style" reflect his efforts to consciously transcend the "Chinese customs" of the Dali period and seek a balance between quality and text. Finally, the book discusses Dugu and his relationship with the "Ancient Prose Movement" and questions the popular notion in academic circles that he is regarded as "one of the pioneers of the Ancient Prose Movement". He pointed out that the parallel prose he criticized, which only has the beauty of sound and form but no real content, is by no means synonymous with the commonly known parallel prose. It is true that compared to the writers of the Six Dynasties and his contemporaries, he did create a certain number of essays that narrate people and express his personality. However, this is actually closely related to the awakening of "humanity" and the rise of "humanity" at the turn of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

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