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| The Spiritual Convergence of Zhu Yingdan’s Landscape Poetry and the Landscape Poetry of Tang and Song Dynasties |
| Wang Zelong Xue Yaxin |
| (School of Chinese Literature and Language， Central China Normal University， Wuhan 430079) |
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Abstract Zhu Yingdan follows the ancient motto of “poetry has an affinity with the field”. He has written a large number of modern landscape poems in the past half century. In the world constructed by landscape poetry，the poet takes the landscape as a friend. He communicates poetically with nature. Inheriting the tradition of the landscape poets of Tang and Song Dynasties， Zhu Yingdan desires for the peace and tranquility of the countryside. He lives in the city but “returns home through poetry”. Poetry paves the way to his spiritual home. He senses the unity of nature and life with an optimistic attitude towards life in the poetry of Tang and Song Dynasties，and his poetry presents the consciousness of life that transcends death. Living in turbulent times，he embodies the survival situation of the modern society in his landscape poetry. Different from the poetry of Tang and Song Dynasties that are merely about disease，the death of the mother， or war， Zhu’s poetry deeply reflects on the surviving conditions of the modern society. He perceives nature and life through his body，integrates the missing of the mother with the beauty of nature，and expresses his understanding of war and life through his landscape poetry. The Chiangnan complex and the dream and sea-sky writings of the Tang and Song poets inspire him to appreciate the charm of distance and illusions. Zhu Yingdan fantasizes and constructs the hometown of Chiangnan and the daydreams and sea-sky sceneries，to look back poetically on the landscape poets of Tang and Song， and carry on with his spiritual homecoming and reflection on life in the imaginary world.
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Received: 22 November 2021
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2021, Vol. 60 
