The Poetry and Wine of Yangzhou Salt Merchants in the Qing Dynasty
by Mingguang
About This Novel
This book studies the poetry and drama activities of Yangzhou salt merchants in the Qing Dynasty; sorts out the basic aspects of their literary and artistic activities and their contributions to local cultural activities, explores the intrinsic motivations of salt merchant writers' literary creation, re-understands and evaluates the spiritual pursuit of the salt merchant literati group and the social value of their creations, and the cultural character of salt merchant writers; explores the interactive influence between the merchant group and the literati class, and reveals the characteristics and mechanisms that create regional cultural prosperity. Among them, the focus is on the literary activities of Sun Zhiwei, a salt merchant poet in the early Qing Dynasty, Ma Yueguan and Ma Yuelu brothers, salt merchant poets in the Yongzong-Qianlong period and Qianlong period, and Jiang Chun, a salt merchant literary activist who paid the emperor in commoners during the Qianlong period.
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