Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. During the change of dynasties in Ming and Qing dynasties, the life of the Feng brothers has undergone earth-shaking changes. The invasion of the Qing army to the south and the money prison case cast a shadow over their lives, which led to the decline of their family wealth and often made them feel ashamed of everything. Nevertheless, Feng Shu, who was "pale and ready to fall", encouraged himself by worrying about becoming Wang Zuo in the 1980s. It's a pity that he has been engaged in the industry for most of his life and still got nothing. He was quite disappointed and miserable. He had to pretend to be a adherent to adapt himself to farming, but he lamented helplessly that "reading is not a tool, reading is not a tool."
However, it is difficult to sum up the fate of life with "gain" and "loss". There are gains and losses, there are gains and losses. It is this life experience of being involved in the fields that gives them the opportunity to experience the lower class and taste the suffering at the bottom. During the war in the late Ming Dynasty, the people were mired in mud. All this was witnessed and experienced by the Feng brothers, leaving a deep and painful memory.
Feng Shu's Collected Works of Avoiding People records his embarrassment of "throwing a wall and collapsing a wall, and his knees are unbearable", his fear of "burning like a swallow and drying like a fish" and his worry of "who will send letters to the city, open his eyes and cry". Out of nostalgia for friends who left because of the war, Feng Shu compiled Homesickness Collection in the style of Zhongzhou Collection, but was unfortunately convicted.
After Feng Shu's death, Feng Ban learned to drink Ruan Ji to avoid disaster, buried the pain of bereavement in his heart and implied it in his works, which brought the satirical function and implicit expression of poetry to the extreme. Works such as Collection of Blunt Poems, Miscellanies of Blunt Poems, Summary of Blunt Poems, and Manuscripts of Blunt Poems are full of poetic history. On poetry, Feng Ban paid attention to "no words and no books" in Canglang Poetry Talk, and opposed Yan Yu's "Wu Miao Theory". For this reason, Yan's True and False is ostensibly a reproach to Yan Yu, but its fundamental purpose is to express dissatisfaction with the exclusive respect of the seven sons of the Ming Dynasty for the Tang Dynasty.
Feng Ban accused Ming Qizi of being a "noble son, leaning on the gate valve" more than once in his comments on Miscellanies of Dull Songs, Mobilization of Talents and Yingkui Fajing. It is said that Jingling School is "an ancient home, sometimes smart and sometimes elegant." Whether it is the Seven Sons of the Ming Dynasty or the Jingling School, their poetry creation is nothing more than "the horse in the painting, written in the inner door." These conclusions may have many biases, but they do have the power to criticize the current disadvantages and occupy a place in the history of literature.
Erfeng's poetics advocated the integration of poetry creation and poetics theory, and extended it to the reading, collation and comment of ancient books and documents, forming a poetic promotion method combining text promotion with theoretical propaganda, which directly affected the specialization of poetics in Qing Dynasty. Wuqiao, Zhao Zhixin, He Chao and Ji Yun were all deeply influenced by it. Even in the late Qing Dynasty, there were many followers.
Zhou Xiaoyan wrote her doctoral thesis "A Study of Feng Shu and Feng Ban's Poetics" (People's Publishing House, June 2065, 438+09) around Feng Shu and Feng Ban's life writings, the origin, theory, creation, research methods and influence of poetry. During the defense, the experts of the defense committee spoke highly of the thesis and put forward some suggestions worthy of further revision. At that time, I was the chairman of the defense, and I have a deep memory of Zhou Xiaoyan's doctoral thesis. I appreciated her efforts very much, so I recruited her into the postdoctoral workstation of the Institute of Literature of China Academy of Social Sciences and continued to sort out the poems of Feng Shu and Feng Ban.
In order to investigate the versions of Erfeng's poems and their contributions in copying, collating and evaluating, Zhou Xiaoyan almost traveled all over the country, comprehensively collected materials, comprehensively investigated the origin of the versions, and demonstrated the value of each version one by one, so as to better grasp the characteristics and contributions of Feng Shu and Feng Ban in collating ancient books and the embodiment of poetic concepts. On this basis, Zhou Xiaoyan comprehensively combed and revised the manuscript. After more than five years of polishing, she finally finished the final work, which is worth celebrating and recommending to readers.