| Summary: | 博士 === 中國文化大學 === 中國文學研究所 === 89 === Yong-shi-shi (Poems on History) of the late Tang dynasty may be said to belong to one of two major types, one placing primary emphasis on literary values and the other stressing narrative or story elements. The latter type enjoyed considerable popularity during the late Tang era, when poets such as Hu Zeng, Zhou Tan and Wang Zun devoted much time and effort to the composition of such verse, much of it solidly grounded in historical circumstances. However, often considered to lack strong literary values, their efforts in this wise won them little respect from literary critics of the time and harsh treatment from scholars of later eras. On the other hand, these verses were later cited extensively in various pinghua and yanyi historical prose narratives. Therefore, believing this verse deserves careful reevaluation, the objective in this dissertation has been to focus on the role and function of such narrative verse as cited in later popular literature, and in particular to seek to demonstrate the reasons why Hu Zeng''''s poems were so often cited in Yuan dynasty pinghua and yanyi of the Ming and Ching eras, and what values in particular they tended to lend those popular literary works. In that way, Hu Zeng''''s contributions to Chinese literary history are reexamined and cast in a new and more positive light.
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