Parallel Prose in the Southern and Northern Dynasties
First, the concept: "parallel", "driving two horses", parallel, double meaning. Parallel prose sprouted in the Eastern Han Dynasty, developed in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and matured and prospered in the Southern Dynasties. It is a style that pays attention to formal beauty. It is mainly composed of four sentences and six sentences (tied for four wives and six wives), paying attention to duality, temperament, allusions and decoration. The prosperity of parallel prose is an important literary phenomenon in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
2. Parallel Prose and Parallel Prose: With the development of parallel prose, the words and fu as the source of parallel prose also tend to parallel prose, resulting in parallel prose (or "Paifu"). Parallel prose and parallel prose are both styles between prose and poetry, which are closely related and the boundaries are increasingly blurred.
Writer's Works: The important writers of parallel prose in the Southern and Northern Dynasties are Bao Zhao, Kong and Yu Xin. Yu Xin is the most successful parallel prose writer in Bao Zhao's Poems of Wucheng and Kong's Movements to the North Mountain. His works include Small Garden Poetry, Bamboo Slip Poetry and Dead Tree Poetry.
Extensive reading works: Yu Xin's masterpiece Jiangnan Fu is unprecedented in parallel prose creation because of its epic scale and boldness, rich lyricism and literary talent in Sao style, appropriate preface and prose, symmetry of duality and suppression of palace merchants. (Excerpt) The basic characteristics of parallel prose are duality, allusion and rhetoric. Lament over the demise of the old country and his own wandering.
Tao Yuanming's life and thought: Ming Dynasty, later renamed as Qian. An outstanding poet and essayist who entered Liu and Song Dynasties in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Life experience can be roughly divided into two periods, with Peng Ze's seclusion as the boundary.