花蕊夫人｢宮詞一百首｣의 문학성 고찰 = The Creative Characteristics of One Hundred Palace Poems by Lady Huarui

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This article analyzes the literary features of Gongci One Hundred Poems (宮詞一百首) by Lady Huarui (花蕊夫人) of Former Shu(前蜀), a key link between Wang Jian’s Mid-Tang palace-poem model and the tradition’s Northern Song revival. Using the 2024 Complete Poetry of the Tang and Five Dynasties (唐五代詩全編)—which corrects earlier misattributions and identifies the author as “Empress Dowager Shunsheng Xu” (順聖太后徐氏) while establishing a one-hundred-poem corpus—this study shifts attention from documentary value to poetic form and style.
It argues that Huarui’s sequence achieves. First, a pictorial beauty (繪畵美) through striking color contrasts and dense sensory imagery that render palace spaces, seasonal cycles, and daily rituals with painterly clarity, alongside lively, humorous depictions of palace women as active subjects. Second, the poems display a pronounced aesthetics of turn (轉折美): within the seven-character quatrain cycle, meaning is intensified through unexpected pivots (別有頓挫), often in the third line, that redirect the poem from scene to narration or from record to image. These qualities together reveal a vivid, affectionate insider’s gaze and mark the work as a high achievement of Five Dynasties court literature.