Abstract：“Song Yun culture” is an academic hotspot radiating from Zhejiang to the whole country nowadays. By re-examining Lu You’s poetry from the perspective of the Song Yun culture, we can always touch upon the spiritual characteristics of the Song Yun culture everywhere. Lu You’s dream poems, plum blossom poems, and philosophical poems are not only the most distinctive parts of his creation but also the most obvious focus of the Song Yun culture. First of all, Lu You’s dream poems reflect the patriotic feelings in the Song culture. Lu You was an outstanding representative of patriotic poets in the Song Dynasty. As the spiritual characteristics of the Song Yun culture, his unique way of reflecting the feelings of families and the country was to record dreams with high density and high frequency. He was not only the poet who created the most dream-remembering poems in the history of Chinese poetry but also the first poet who expressed his feelings of serving the country in the way of dream-remembering. Lu You can be described as the first person who combined remembering dreams with patriotism. The strange and changeable dream is actually the artistic carrier of his long-standing, old, and sincere patriotism. Secondly, Lu You’s poems on plum blossoms reflect the gentleman character advocated by the Song Yun culture. People with lofty ideals in the Song Dynasty paid more attention to the temper and persistence of integrity. Accordingly, the artistic technique of “gentleman’s virtue” was carried forward and practiced unprecedentedly in the Song Dynasty. Lu You’s poems on plum blossom gave profound ideological connotation and strong spiritual strength to the traditional works of chanting plums, and it could be regarded as a model of “gentleman and virtue”. It was in the Southern Song Dynasty poets represented by Lu You that the plum blossom was elevated from a moral symbol to the apex of a moral ideal and became a symbol of perfect personality. Lu You’s description of plum blossoms was not limited to one genre, which was consistent with his style of all styles and good at poetry, and more common were the five-character and seven-character quatrains. Among them, the most popular work was undoubtedly “Bu Suan Zi: Yong Mei”, which showed the poet’s persistent pursuit of an ideal personality, and also reflected the profound characteristics of the Song Yun culture from one side. Thirdly, Lu You’s philosophical poems reflect the philosophical speculation that the Song Yun culture was good at. Lu You, who lived in the post-Su Shi era, cannot be compared with Su Shi in the depth, breadth, and height of philosophical thinking, but he also created many philosophical poems with rich implications. Its remarkable feature was good at creating things, discovering and summarizing the universal law of life from trivial daily life, and its direction was completely detached from the self, and it was in line with the confusion faced by human beings in the journey of life, and objectively had the function of philosophy textbook and life compass.The main innovation of this paper is that it closely follows the current academic hotspots, and for the first time places Lu You in the context of the Song Yun culture, launches a multi-faceted and multi-level investigation, and draws a conclusion that is beyond the vision of the predecessors. That is to say, Lu You and the Song Yun culture are always in an interactive state. On the one hand, Song Yun culture endows Lu You’s poetry with ideological connotations and spiritual characteristics that are in harmony with the conditions of a specific era. On the other hand, Lu You’s realistic and creative poetry is not only a multi-dimensional observation and interpretation of the Song Yun culture but also injects new elements and energy into the Song Yun culture, making the Song Yun culture more colorful and diverse.
肖瑞峰. 宋韵文化视域中的陆游[J]. 浙江大学学报(人文社会科学版), 2023, 53(4): 28-37.
Lu You in the Song Yun Cultural Perspective. Lu You in the Song Yun Cultural Perspective. JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, 2023, 53(4): 28-37.
2023, Vol. 53 
