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Abstract

Ye Mengde's Shilin Poetry Talks was one of the representative works of the Song Dynasty. His poetry achievements were mainly reflected in several respects. Firstly, during the early stage of the poetry talks of the Song Dynasty, the stories about poetry and some amusing anecdotes related to the poets were also recorded while discussing poetry, but the poetry talks in the later period were more theoretical than before, Shilin Poetry Talks was typical of the transition period with such features. In this book, Ye Mengde put forward his views on the poetry comprehensively, and his poetry theory can be divided into the following categories, essentialism, expressionism, the theory of creation and the criticism theory of the poetry. Secondly, there were a lot of comments on the poetry rules which were prevalent in the Song Dynasty, Ye Mengde had covered nearly all aspects of the main questions in his book. Thirdly, in the Song Dynasty, Du Fu and his poems won undivided admiration and multi-evaluation, Ye Mengde had made many comments on Du Fu, especially on the characteristics of poetry rules from different angles, and he had shown an excellent model of writing poet for the scholars at that time. Fourthly, Ye Mengde had shown a type of proper approach of writing poems for the scholars through the evaluation of the poets in the middle and later period of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he wanted to correct the faults at the time. In addition, Ye Mengde paid attention to “the poetic flavor” and used to talk about the poems with Buddhism which made us see the tendency of poetics of Song Dynasty.