Wang Zhaopeng
Ci Xue.
This thesis makes a study on the circulation of collected ci poems by South Song Dynasty ci writers such as Zhu Shuzhen, Zhang Lun, Hou Zhi, Zhao Yanduan, Wang Qianjiu, Chen Renjie, Yao Kuan, Li Liuqian, and so on. At that time, the circulating collected ci poems appeared in ways of either single edition, or mixture edition with poems and prose writings, which is quite different from that of the North Song. With the belief of “poetry solemn, ci vulgar”, writers in the North Song did not mix their poems and essays with ci poems. Writers in the South Song, however, collected their ci poems with poems and essays, which indicates that ci had won equal position in the South Song. The ways of circulation of ci between the North Song and the South Song are also different, oral singing in the former stage, printed edition in the latter stage.