Tracing to the Source of the Rational Characteristics of the Song Dynasty Poetry which Were Represented by Jiangxi School of Poetry

The poetic creation in Jiangxi School of Poetry attached importance to argument and reasoning,and it could best reflect the Song Dynasty poetry's rational-style characteristics.The poetic creation and propositions of Huang Tingjian and the others summarized the Song Dynasty poetry's creation and influenced later generations in poetic creation and practice.There were probably the following main reasons for the formation of the Song Dynasty Poetry's rational characteristics: the Song Dynasty poetry sought what was new in the literary creation to differentiate from the Tang poetry,the grim political situation urged the poets' mentality to still restrain themselves from the outside,and in the Northern Song Dynasty,the flourishing of the idealist philosophy also caused the Song Dynasty people's literary creation to bear more profound significance of reasoning and preaching.