Lu You's Rural World
by Bao Weimin
About This Novel
Lu You, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, lived in his hometown of rural areas in eastern Zhejiang for a long time. Among Lu You's massive surviving poems, 60 to 70 percent are related to life in his hometown. Focus on interpreting Lu You's poems, using his eyes to observe the rural social life in eastern Zhejiang, and showing the "rural world" in his mind. Although it is not auspicious, it is extremely precious. By analyzing the case of Lu You's "Rural World", it is shown that: Lu You's rural life is a living model of an upper-middle-level rural apartment in rural eastern Zhejiang; the scholar class represented by Lu You played multiple and complex roles in rural social life; the rich and colorful rural life perceived and described by Lu You and the difficult livelihood of the people provide, to a certain extent, several fulcrums for us to rely on when imagining the "Song Dynasty countryside".
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