Investigation and Argument of LI Meng-yang's Restoring Ancient Thoughts

The philosophy of LI Meng-yang's restoring ancient thoughts can be summarized as: write prose,one should take the prose of Qin and Han dynasties as example,to write poem,one should take the poem of prosperous Tang as example.Those who were opposite to the thoughts argued that LI overemphasized the idiom and style,while those who were in favor LI's thoughts believed that that LI advocated true feelings was to be innovative in terms of restoring ancient thoughts.This paper : Before the appearance of the viewpoint of the reactionism of the seven scholars headed by LI Meng-yang in the early period of Ming Dynasty,The Ming poems experienced three phases.The style of the Mingpoems was not dominated by the style of the Song and Yuan poems.In the first phase,itfollowed the style of Song and Yuan poems.In thesecond phase,the style of Tang poems was more popular.And in the third phase,the style of Song and Yuan again was in dominate position.And during thetime of Hongzhi,thestyle of Tang was more followed than the style of Song and Yuan.Therefore,LI Meng-yang's going back to the style of Tang was not a renewal but a relatively more wide and open point of view.In its spiritual essence.LI Meng-yang's viewpoint is one about learning? learning from the best poems of the past.The core of it is to renew the nature of aesthetics and moralistic tradition.