Chen Liang was a wellknown Confucian and a famous person who wrote ci, a type of classical Chinese poetry in South Song Dynasty. Mao Jin regarded his statements as ones without any heresy and sugarplum (Ci’s postscript from Long Chuan); Liu Xizai al...
Chen Liang was a wellknown Confucian and a famous person who wrote ci, a type of classical Chinese poetry in South Song Dynasty. Mao Jin regarded his statements as ones without any heresy and sugarplum (Ci’s postscript from Long Chuan); Liu Xizai also said “Chen Tongfu has friendship with Jiaxuan. Both of them are outstanding people and their statements are similar”(volume 4, Art Summery). He not only succeeded at ci’s writing, but also had considerable influences on prose writing. His prose writing inherited traditions from ancient Chinese literature in North Song Dynasty, in particular, he highly recommended Ouyang Xiu’s ancient Chinese literature. As a result, he selected 130 of ancient Chinese works from Ouyang Xiu, known as Quality Selected Works from Ouyang (also called Quality Selected Works from revered Ouyang wenzhong). This selected works from Ouyang was quite influential and featured selected works. It was the earliest selected works from Ouyang that are available nowadays. This selected works was circulated at that time and handed down to generations. The analysis on Quality Selected Works from Ouyang includes its background, impacts and assessments, and spreading.