Yearning for Home and Getting Land in Su Shi's Literature

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  • 蘇軾の歸田と買田
  • ソショク ノ キデン ト バイデン
  • 蘇軾の帰田と買田

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Abstract

As most of literary bureaucrats of the Northern Song 北宋 Dynasty, Su Shi enjoyed his leisure times in his provincial offices. But on the other hand, in his poems and proses, he expressed his anxiety for returning to his native place Shu 蜀 over and over again. For all his yearning, came into exile to Huangzhou 黄州, Su Shi was forced to forsake returning to his birthplace. But even under the circumstances, he still tried to find something which related to Shu in the water of the river and the plants. As some other literary bureaucrats in those days brought lands and tranfered their domicilies to districts rich in products and had facilities for communication, Su Shi got land in Changzhou 常州, also. But in his new home, he tried to find things which made him remember his birthplace as before. After all Su Shi could not be sastisfied with his new lands in Changzhou, and it was a contrast to Ou-yang Xiu 歐陽修. Ou-yang Xiu was legally domiciled in Jizhou 吉州 but looked forward to his retirement to his retreat in Yingzhou 潁州. Su Shi was exiled to Lingnan 嶺南 district in his later days, he had to give up his anxiety for Shu. But in his poems at that days, he discribed his lost birthplace as if a closed peaceful paradise.

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  • 中國文學報

    中國文學報 54 36-69, 1997-04

    CHINESE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION, DEPARTMENT OF CHINESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, FACULTY OF LETTERS, KYÔTO UNIVERSITY

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