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- Title
明清之際夏允彜之死及相關悼念詩文之敘事策略.
- Authors
許明德
- Abstract
During the Ming-Qing transition, the literati who had not martyred themselves to the Ming cause felt a growing need to mourn their lost compatriots. This was an awkward predicament if they did not write about the martyrs, the Manchus might completely erase every trace of them from history on the other hand, the fact that these surviving literati had not sacrificed their lives for their state left them open to severe moral criticism by their contemporaries. This being so, how could they possibly appraise their fallen friends when they might feel morally inferior to the dead?This paper attempts to explicate the narrative strategies adopted in commemorating the death of martyrs to the Ming cause by taking a closer look at how three literati write about the death of Xia Yunyi 夏允彜. After his death, some of Xia's friends died as martyrs, while others chose to surrender to the new regime. We shall begin with a comparison between Xia Yunyi's poetry and the works of his son, Xia Wanchun 夏完淳. By comparing the use of the concepts of loyalty and filial piety in their poetry of mourning, this paper outlines the son's struggle to commemorate his father. This paper then turns to a close reading of Chen Zilong's 陳子龍 works to examine how he attempts to justify his own survival while mourning his lifelong friend. The paper ends with an analysis of the memorials written by Song Zhengyu 宋徵輿, observing how the mourning of Xia Yunyi is reframed as the preservation of local culture.
- Subjects
XIA Yunyi; CHINESE poetry; MARTYRDOM in literature; XIA Wanchun; CHEN, Zilong, 1608-1647; SONG Zhengyu; MING dynasty, China, 1368-1644; QING dynasty, China, 1644-1912; ELEGIAC poetry
- Publication
Chinese Studies / Hanxue Yanjiu, 2014, Vol 32, Issue 4, p167
- ISSN
0254-4466
- Publication type
Article