Personality, Circumstance, and Destiny:A Study of Su Shunqin

• Main Authors: Meng-Yuan Shen, 沈夢原
• Other Authors: 何寄澎
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55g8tz

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 中國文學研究所 === 105 === This paper studies Su Shunqin蘇舜欽, one of the most outstanding poets in Northern Song Dynasty. In the history of Chinese literature, Su was renowned as one of the creators of poems of the Song Dynasty. However, his biography, political activities, personality, had long been ignored, which made Su’s image obscure. In order to make his image clear, this paper prepares to investigate various historical texts to discover more details about Su’s life and the cultural environment he lived in, revealing the background he grew up, how his personality was shaped, how he reacted to political persecution, to observe his short life, his struggle and suffering. Born in a proud family, Su’s grandfather was prime minister in feudal China, and his father was the ministry of works. However, Su’s official career was difficult. His family had gone downhill right after his grandfather’s death, then his family members died one after another, adding his personality, generous in the beginning, some negative and oppression aspects. Although his career seemed to have an opportunity to take off during the Qinli New Deal慶曆新政, with the failure of the New Deal, his hope faded away. Despairingly, Su left the capital. The political turmoil was due to Su’s personality and the political environment, and was also pushed forward by other people and history factors. In fact, Su’s extreme character was formed in the atmosphere among literati and officialdoms during Qinli period. The atmosphere further unleashed his personality to an unrestrained condition. Through clarifying his life experience, we may have a better understanding of Su’s works, of the contradiction of generous and negative in his literature, of his behavior, of his self-abased character and of why he had difficulty in dealing with life predicaments. At last, We will also have a better understanding of the time of Renzong in the Song Dynasty宋仁宗 and the Qinli literati and officialdoms慶曆士大夫.