The Significance of Lü Zuqian's Records of Reading Poetry in Lü's Family School in the History of the Studies on Poetry

The historical significance of Records of Reading Poetry in Lu's Family School for the studies on Poetry can be summarized as follows: it recognized,vindicated,and developed the findings made by orthodox studies on Poetry,thus having forcefully revised and regulated the development of the studies on Poetry and activated the vitality embodied in the orthodox studies on Poetry;its Zhu-sheng-shuo(theory of sticking to the sound criterion) that designated Poetry as an elegant musical work served as a bridge between the Zhu-sheng-shuo of Zheng Qiao and Wang Zhi and the musical theorizations on Poetry advanced by Zhu Xi and Wang Bai;its refutation of Zheng Qiao's Yin-shi-shuo(theory of the obscenity in Poetry) is an important cause that set Yin-shi-shuo in transformation from Zheng Qiao to Zhu Xi,and from Zhu Xi to Wang Bai.