On YUAN Hao-wen and Ancient Chinese Poems of Jin Dynasty

Ancient Chinese poems in Jin dynasty,with YUAN Hao-wen being the representative poet,form a tall artistic tower that deserves attention.Ancient Chinese poems in such a period,though having in them certain factors of poems during the Northern and Southern Song period,are a display of achievements that attach importance to in the Tang dynasty.Poets in Jin dynasty in their creation of folk songs and ballads carried forward the aims of sorrow over the people by DU Fu and mending faults of the time by BAI Ju-yi,bringing about a great many of new folk songs and ballads being distinctively characteristic of times,sparkling with the radiance of realism,and their favourite for poems of Ge and Xing types makes the seven-character-a-line poems very fashionable at the time.Poems during the Northern and Southern Song period were departed from music and became a type of literature for reading at the desk.But poems in Jin dynasty were made to go back to their original state of being sung.Such a type of going back is obviously an advance in ancient Chinese poems.