Bringing into the Presence: Jiang Kui's Figure and His Style Modeled in the Creative Ci Writing in Qing Dynasty

Jiang Kui had great influence on the development of Ci poetry in the Qing Dynasty. The Ci poets in the Qing Dynasty not only highly praised Jiang Kui and made him a lofty goal but also paid close attention to his achievements in the Ci music composition. They often took Jiang Kui's Ci poetry as a canon and, especially, learn from his creative composition. They also focused on the sentiment, meaning, words and syntax disposed in Jiang's Ci poetry, summing up the most indicative features so as to better learn from him. In the development of Chinese literature, there is an interactive relationship between writing and theory. It is interesting that despite of the lack of theoretical writings to express the writing idea, we may find that many writers consciously applied the methods to their writings. The way the Ci writers learned from Jiang Kui clearly indicated the relation between theory and creation in the Qing Dynasty.